Quality Improvement Tools
The Clinical Excellence Commission provides a range of tools and resources to support NSW Health staff to improve the quality of care for our patients. The tools and resources include graphs, charts, diagrams and mapping tools designed to help you plot the data around your intended quality improvement initiative.
By using these tools and resources throughout your Quality Improvement initiative, you and your team can gain a better understanding of the underlying problems that are causing the issue, gain insight as to how best to go about the improvement and develop an effective strategy to complete your project.
Each tool includes background information and instructions on how and when it should be used. Accompanying templates (Excel or PowerPoint) have been developed and are available for staff to download and use with their own data. Links to instructional videos have also been included for most tools, to further assist in the explanation of the resource.
Organise and share thoughts and ideas
State what the team plans to do
Understand common basic statistics
Determine solutions to a problem
Logically organise possible causes for a problem
Study how a process changes over time
Systematically plan and structure your improvement project
Conduct a systematic, proactive analysis of a process in which harm may occur
Systematically display of the components of a process
Display data using bars of different heights
Improve processes of care or patient outcomes
Prioritise identified issues with a consensus method
Show the relative importance of problems.
Show which data points change over time
Study possible relationships between two variables
Feedback
We welcome your feedback on the usefulness and relevance of the individual tools. If you have any ideas or suggestions on how we can improve these resources, please take a moment to complete the evaluation survey found at the bottom of each of the individual tools' page.
If you are after additional information or tools, please email the CEC Academy Staff.