Quality Resources
The Joint Commission
http://www.jointcommission.org/ http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/cqspi/performanceimprovement/pitools/index.html http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/cqspi/performanceimprovement/guidelines/index.html (PI toolbox and meeting guidelines from University of Iowa hospitals)** http://www.va.gov/ncps/CogAids/RCA/index.html (RCA toolkit from the VA) http://www.qualitycolloquium.com/ (Site for Harvard's patient safety seminar -- this year's slides are under the "agenda" tab)** http://psnet.ahrq.gov/primerHome.aspx (Patient safety primers from AHRQ) http://www.premierinc.com/about/events-education/advisorlive/archive.jsp (Archives of Premier Live case studies in quality improvement) http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/ResourceRoomRedesign/RR_LandingPage.cfm (QI Portal from the Society of Hospital Medicine -- has Quality 101 slides) http://www.qualitynet.org/dcs/ContentServer?c=Page&pagename=QnetPublic%2FPage%2FQnetBasic&cid=1149260517122 (Data abstraction training materials for core measures) http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/pips/ (PIPS toolkits for AHRQ -- more patient safety)** http://dms.dartmouth.edu/cms/ (Clinical Microsystems toolkits from Dartmouth University med school)** www.icsi.org (Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement; lots of protocols and things here)** http://www.ismp.org/Tools/default.asp (Institute for Safe Medication Practice -- has some useful reference charts) http://gunston.gmu.edu/healthscience/ (George Mason University offers a masters in healthcare quality, and all of the materials have been made freely available online through the open courseware project!! Truly excellent stuff)**
http://ihi.org
IHI Open School: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/IHIOpenSchool/
http://www.med.umich.edu/patientsafetytoolkit/index.htm
(Patient safety toolkit from University of Michigan)
http://www.ihcs.msu.edu/qi_presentations.html
(Training Materials on disease management)
http://etl2.library.musc.edu/qi/
(Quality 101 free online course)
http://www.mtpin.org/educationmaterials.htm
(Scroll down to bottom of page -- "New PI Coordinator Webex Series")
http://www.mtpin.org/PIN_manual.htm
(PI manual/toolkit)
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~redgeman/Six%20Sigma%20Innovation%20Course%20Site.html
(course materials from six sigma course)
