After you have been collecting data for a reasonable period of time, review the data for the measures you have selected to check if there has been improvement.
Check for Change
Time to Complete: 1 week
Difficulty: Easy; requires time to analyze data
Outcome: An overview of how the system is working for your practice
Steps
Review data
Analyze processes
- If the changes you made in your practice are working, implement them in a larger scale.
- If after reviewing the data, you learn that the goals you had established have not been accomplished, it's time to refine your changes or reject them.
What You Will Need
Time to analyze data and review selected measures
Tool
This FPM tool can help you analyze your practice's performance in key areas: Sample Clinical Instrument Panel (2-page Excel file. About downloading files)
Where to Go for Help
Read the following FPM article: "Quality Improvement: First Steps."
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This Patient-Centered Medical Home section of the AAFP web site was supported in part by a grant from Merck & Co.
This Patient-Centered Medical Home section of the AAFP web site was supported in part by a grant from Merck & Co.
