Practice-driven Quality Improvement (QI) focuses on identifying and implementing changes within your own clinical practice to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. This approach leverages data from your practice to drive targeted improvements that are directly relevant to your daily work and patient outcomes.
Source Your Practice Data
When working on a practice-driven quality improvement (QI) project, identifying and gathering relevant data is crucial to understanding your practice’s current performance and recognizing areas for improvement. Several options are available to you for sourcing your personalized practice data. This course supports the generation of data through the SUPPORT for PPIP: Self Reflection Tool for Data-informed QI.
SUPPORT for PPIP: Self-Reflection Tool for Data-informed QI
How can the SUPPORT for PPIP Tool for Data-informed QI generate data for PPIP's Practice-driven QI activity?
The data generation tool in the SUPPORT for PPIP requires you to review a minimum of 10 patient charts and answer questions based on the CPSA’s Standards of Practice. You will not be asked to input any identifiable patient information. As you go through your records, ensure that you are consistently reflecting on the information and using it to drive meaningful changes in your practice.
How Standards of Practice can Inform Practice-driven QI?
How can I use SOP questionnaires to generate data for my Practice Driven QI activity?
To fulfill the requirements for both quality improvement activities in the PPIP course, you need to complete two distinct quality improvement (QI) projects. This means that the Standards of Practice QI activity and the Practice Driven QI activity each need independent data generation and an independent action plan. However, generating data for these two activities can follow the same process: through a SOP questionnaire.
You must select 2 Different Standards of Practice (SOPs) questionnaires
- One for the Practice-Driven QI Activity, and
- One for the CPSA Standards of Practice QI Activity.
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- This ensures that you address varied aspects of your practice and meet the requirements of the PPIP program for the 2 different QI activities.
- As you review your records, you can use the same patient charts to answer the questions for both QI projects.
- This approach allows for consistency in data collection and reflection, making it easier to identify patterns and areas for improvement.
Data from Health Systems
There are several alternative options for sourcing data that CPSA has listed on their website that can provide valuable insights for identifying practice improvement opportunities. These data sources include HQCA panel reports, MD Snapshot Prescribing and EMR data.
Data from Group/Systems-level Projects
You can also leverage data from your groups or systems project to inform the practice-driven QI activity. Reach out to your SCN (Strategic Clinical Network), PCN (Primary Care Network), or physician group to find out more.
Choose Your Data Source for Practice-driven QI
You need to first make a decision about your data source for the Practice-driven QI activity. Factor into account the time, resources and access when making a decision. The following 2 options are available for you in the SUPPORT for PPIP program.
SUPPORT for PPIP: Self-Reflection Tool for Data-informed QI
This involves choosing a CPSA Standards of Practice Questionnaire that is relevant your practice.Â
Get started with this by going to the module on Explore Opportunities for Data-informed QI Activities
Also, don’t forget to sign-up for the webinar for Data-informed QI; there will be a dedicated 30 min segment for Practice-driven QI during the webinar.
Challenge Yourself
You have the choice to complete your Practice-driven QI reporting cycle in the My Practice Improvement (MyPI) tool. MyPI is included in your subscription for SUPPORT for PPIP at no additional charge, and is a great way to challenge your quality improvement skills. This tool includes rich coaching prompts encouraging you to engage in deeper self-reflection and helps you generate an action plan, thus satisfying the Practice Driven QI activity PPIP standards.
If any of the following applies to you, MyPI might be the right choice for you:
- You already have access to robust data sources, as described by the CPSA
- You would like to complete your Practice Driven QI activity as a part of a team
- You want to challenge yourself in your ability to gather and reflect on data