... Licensed re-use rights only Six sigma Health and safety Lean thinking Medicine PDSA This paper discusses the process used to standardize a workplace violence prevention program (WVPP) within a five-hospital healthcare system in Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Pursuant to The Joint...

... improvement team, using the PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) Cycle, analyzed the emergency department care delivery process and sequentially made process improvements that contributed to project success. Findings The average turnaround time goal of 90 minutes or less per visit was achieved in four months...

... (NICE), 2008). PDSA Quality improvement Quality audit In total, 220 patients (12.8 per cent of practice total registered) had at least one consultation for a condition related to a sore throat symptom during the pre-intervention period of data collection; 254 patients (14.8 per cent...

...-bound (SMART) objectives, simple data capture systems and Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. Joshua Berman can be contacted at: josh.d.berman@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Motebang District Hospital, operated by Lesotho's MoHSW, is Lesotho's northern regional...

...Matthew Chinman; Sarah B. Hunter; Patricia Ebener Purpose This article aims to describe continuous quality improvement (CQI) for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs in a community‐based organization setting. Design/methodology/approach CQI (e.g., plan‐do‐study‐act cycles (PDSA...

... assumptions and models need to be understood and challenged. Practical implications The authors revise the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) model by adding an explicit problem identification step and hence avoiding solution‐focused habits; demonstrating the need for more formative evaluations to inform...