CQI Continuous Quality Improvement

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• CQI - Continuous Quality Improvement

The Alphabet Soup of Surveillance
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• What's In A Name?

• QA - Quality Assurance
• QI - Quality Improvement
• TQM - Total Quality Management
• CQI - Continuous Quality Improvement

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• ?Identify important functions and processes.
• ?Define useful INDICATORS, i.e. simple measures
• which reflect the quality of one or more
  components
• of the function.
• ?Monitor the INDICATORS at regular intervals.
• ?Analyze the data, looking for strong areas,
  weak areas
• and trends.
• ?Based on the analysis, suggest means to improve
• medical center processes, define more useful
• INDICATORS, eliminate unuseful INDICATORS.