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System-Focused Event Investigation and Analysis Guide
System-Focused Event Investigation and Analysis Guide, AHRQ Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) Toolkit: The "Solutions Meeting" section of this guide (and Appendix F) offer a walk-through on how to run an action planning meeting. It includes brainstorming, evaluating solutions for effectiveness and sustainability, measurement, and a description of the expected outputs.
Design Better, More Effective Quality Improvement Surveys by Avoiding These Errors
Quality improvement (QI) projects often use surveys to gather data, but expertise in survey design isn’t always available to every project team. A recent study(1) illustrates the unpredictable quality of locally developed surveys for QI, showing that development of surveys requires special expertise in addition to careful consideration and time.