Rebecca Steinfeld, an improvement advisor for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, shared common mistakes healthcare organizations make when conducting plan, do, study, act cycles in an IHI Q&A article.
PDSA cycles are tools organizations can use to improve a process by testing a change and learning from the results. Ms. Steinfeld said in the report that some common mistakes she sees in running PDSA cycles include the following:
• Lack of detail in planning, leading to an inability to differentiate between execution and change idea failures.
• Failure to identify the purpose of the PDSA.
• Failure to predict PDSA results.
• Lack of data collection planning.
• Failure to engage PDSA participants in data analysis.
• Failure to use PDSA findings to plan a new test.
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