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Worksheet for Developing Your Quality Improvement Project PROBLEM STATEMENT: • Why are you doing this project? What is the problem you are addressing? Who is affected? When is it a problem? Why does it matter? How does it affect the patient? • Consider aligning your project with at least one of the Institute of Medicine’s six dimensions of quality: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, equitable. • Current situation is __________________, leading to _______________ (undesirable event).

The Model for Improvement asks three questions:

What are we trying to accomplish?

How will we know change is an improvement?

What changes can we make that will result in the improvements that we see