The first three IHI Open School quality improvement courses introduced you to the fundamentals of improving health care. In this course, you’re going to see how people in real health care settings actually use these methodologies to improve care. You’ll start by learning the four phases of an improvement project's "life cycle": innovation, pilot, implementation, and spread. Next, you’ll delve deeper into the theory of spreading change – both the foundational work by sociologist Everett Rogers, and IHI’s Framework for Spread. This course presents two real case studies of organizations that actually used the methodologies you’re learning about to improve an important aspect of patient care.
Estimated Time of Completion:
1 hour
Type of Activity: Knowledge
Release Date:
12/23/2009
Last Update Date:
12/23/2009
After completing this course, you will be able to:
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1. Describe the four phases of an improvement project.
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2. Explain how an improvement project moves through each one of these phases.
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3. List sociologist Everett Rogers’s five attributes of innovations that spread, and apply them to an improvement project.
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4. Identify and describe the components of IHI’s Framework for Spread.
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5. Use the Framework for Spread to plan a simple spread project.
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You must complete all the lessons within this course in order to receive credit for the course.