Testing for Improvement

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Methods for Testing Changes

Part 3: Successful Tests of Change

Part 4: Test for Improvement

Part 5: Implementation

Part 6: Supporting Information

Part 6: Supporting Information 

1. API Associates in Process Improvement
2. The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance (2nd Edition), Langley GL, Nolan KM, Nolan TW, Norman CL, Provost LP, San Francisco, California, USA: Jossey-Bass Publishers; 2009
3. Advances in Quality Improvement: Principles and Framework, Spring 2001 issue of the Quality Assurance Project's QA Brief

1. API Associates in Process Improvement
2. The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance (2nd Edition), Langley GL, Nolan KM, Nolan TW, Norman CL, Provost LP, San Francisco, California, USA: Jossey-Bass Publishers; 2009
3. Institute for Healthcare Improvement
4. QA Monograph
   A Modern Paradigm for Improving Healthcare Quality
   Center for Human Services
   7200 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 600
   Bethesda, MD 20814-4811
   USA
   US AID: The Health Care Improvement Project
5. American Society for Quality
6. Improving Chronic Illness Care
7. Knowledge Gateway (KG) – Portal for Quality Improvement Library provided by HRSA contains an array of QI resources, change strategies, and tools that may be instrumental to organizations who may be designing a QI program. The searchable library can be accessed by entering words or phrases in the "Search For" box.
8. The Migrant Clinicians Network provides web based resources and tools that may be accessed and integrated into health care organizations implementing QI programs.
9. Quality Management Technical Assistance Manual, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau
10. NQC Quality Academy