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Quality Improvement Project Measures Worksheet
Use this worksheet to identify the process, outcome, and balancing measures for your quality improvement project.
Highlights
- Worksheet provides guidance on creating outcome, process, and balancing measures and a data collection plan for each
Use this worksheet to identify the process, outcome, and balancing measures for your quality improvement project.
When you’re trying to make a change in a complex system, a family of measures for which you collect data throughout a quality improvement (QI) project will help your team understand the impact of the changes you implement. Typically, teams track one to two outcome measures, three to five process measures, and sometimes one to two balancing measures.
See the How to Improve section for more information on establishing measures.