Pre-Course Materials
Please read/watch the following articles and webcasts prior to attending the first session:
Webcasts
(Click on title to view/stream webcast. Click the download link to save the webcast to your computer. You may need to right click the link and select 'save target as' to avoid opening the video by default.)
Brent C. James, MD, MStat
Length: 34 minutes 04 seconds
Presentation Objectives:
- Course overview.
- Description of required quality improvement project.
- Course logistics.
Brent C. James, MD, MStat
Length: 41 minutes 35 seconds
Presentation Objectives:
- Committee vs. Teams dynamics.
- Features of an effective team: safe, inclusive, open, consensus seeking, etc.
- Ideal team members.
- PDSA within teams.
Brent C. James, MD, MStat
Length: 35 minutes 39 seconds
Presentation Objectives:
- Describes causal links between quality and cost.
- List areas of quality waste, the cost of poor quality.
- Define limited resource utilization; production vs. efficiency.
- Describe the optimalist - maximalist argument; the implications of cost pressures for the healthcare system.
Week One Preparation
For the first week of the program, please come prepared (if you can) with the following:
- Title of your Quality Improvement Project
- Why you selected this project (why it is important)
- Who will be on the team
- A simple global mission statement for your project
- Preliminary data for project evaluation
These steps are the beginning steps of the quality project. You will use each of these steps in a PowerPoint presentation summarizing your project. During the fourth week each participant will present a PowerPoint illustrating their process improvement project and its results. Each presentation will be allotted 15 minutes with 5 minutes of Q & A after and will give fellow classmates a wide range of applications.
Agendas, Syllabus, etc.
Session 1 Lectures
Session 2 Lectures
QI Project Homework Assignment
miniW13 Homework Overview.pdf
Please bring copies of all homework assignments for consultant review and feedback.
Excel Homework
The files you need for the homework are listed below. You will need to save the files to your hard drive. Right click on the file name and select "Save Target As" from the popup menu. This will save as a zipped file. You will need to run an extraction program (PKUNZIP or Compressed Folders Extraction Wizard) to extract the file to SPCMacrosAddInRev1.12.3.xla. Please open Excel Homework Tutorial 1 before beginning the homework.
PC Tutorial 1 (2010).pdf
PC Tutorial 2 (2010).pdf
To enable Excel Macro – SPC Macros AddIn rev. 1.12.3.xla
You may need to lower your Excel security to enable the 'macro'. To do this, open up Excel and go to TOOLS at the top of the window in the standard toolbar. Next, go to MACRO, SECURITY, SECUR
ITY LEVELS and lower to MEDIUM. You can choose whether or not to run potentially unsafe macros. **If you are using a Mac, you will need to use 2011 Office for Mac or newer. 2008 Office for Mac did not include Visual Basic and will not work with our macros.
The following are data files to be used within the homework assignment. Please refer to the tutorial for more information on how to use the files.
file1 - number of pneumonia patients per week.xls
file2 - number of nondeaths between deaths.xls
file3 - red bead game.xls
file4 - length of stay by delivery type.xls
File5 - breast cancer sreening.xls
Session 1 Assignment
- Create distributions and run charts for each of the datasets.
- Please print hard copies of your distributions and run charts and bring to the next session for consultant review.
Session 2 Assignment
- Create control charts for each data set.
- Please print hard copies of your distributions and run charts and bring to the next session for consultant review.
Events
Your and a guest are invited attend graduation dinner on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 7:00 pm. You must RSVP to the ATP Coordinator, Jean-Ann.Wurtz@imail.org, whether you will or will not attend and if you will be bringing a guest.
Restaurant details will be given in class. As this is a graduation dinner the dress is business attire.