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Institute for Health Care Delivery Research

Advanced Training Program
Student Resources - Fall 2008

Pre-Course Readings

Week One Preparation

Homework Assignments

Events

Pre-Course Readings
Please read the following assignments prior to attending course:

Week One Preparation
For the first week of the program, please come prepared 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 on a Storyboard summarizing your project. During the fourth week each participant will present a storyboard illustrating their process improvement project and its results. Each presentation will be allotted 20 minutes (15 to present and 5 for questions) and will give fellow classmates a wide range of applications.

QI Project Homework Assignment
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 SPCMacrosAddInRev111.xla. Please open Excel Homework Tutorial 1 before beginning the homework.

To enable Excel Macro – SPC Macros AddIn rev. 1.11.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, SECURITY LEVELS and lower to MEDIUM. You can choose whether or not to run potentially unsafe 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.

Session 1 Assignment:

Create distributions and run charts for each of the datasets.
File5 should have distributions and run charts created for each of the severity scores (1-4).
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.
File5 should have control charts created for each of the severity scores (1-4).
Please print hard copies of your distributions and run charts and bring to the next session for consultant review.