The principles of quality improvement include a strong focus on customers and the continuous improvement of processes. Comparing your practice's performance with others can also show you areas in which you could be doing better. After you've identified your practice's key problems, create a list of solutions, or change projects. Before you can prioritize your list of change projects, establish your criteria for judging the projects' importance. It's important that your group move forward with the next steps of the QI process.
Quality improvement is focused on making processes better.
The first step is finding your practice's key problems. You then need to identify and prioritize potential change projects. But QI is much more rewarding and positive than perhaps you've realized. Very simply, QI is a method of continuously examining processes and making them more effective. It's an idea that started in the business community as companies looked for better ways to produce better products and services for their customers.