Professional Custom Accounting: Methods for collecting and analyzing data in the future
•Evaluate the evidence presented in the research literature and the quality standards proposed by various organizations, including the IOM’s six aims for quality improvement. •Based on this review and your knowledge of the organization that you have selected, determine appropriate measures and indicators of performance related to your identified quality improvement issue. •Consider how you could gather and use historical evidence of the organization’s performance related to the quality improvement issue. Also consider methods for gathering and assessing current quantitative and qualitative data, including those currently in use by the organization (e.g., chart audit data, staff surveys, quality indicators that are monitored, observations). If possible, examine actual data to assess your selected organization’s performance related to the issue. •Think about what, specifically, you would like to achieve related to this issue. Establish realistic, evidence-based quality performance targets. •Analyze gap(s) between the organization’s current performance and the performance targets. •As you do this, you may wish to create a graphic organizer/alignment chart for your own use that illustrates: •The measures and indicators that you would evaluate •Current and historical data related to this quality issue—either actual data or methods for how you would collect and analyze the data •Methods for collecting and analyzing data in the future (including when you would do this) •Realistic, evidence-based targets
