Choosing an Improvement Project Lesson 4: The PDSA Cycle

Author(s): Kevin GarrettCenter for Quality Improvement and Innovation (CQII)

Lesson on the proper use of the Plan, Do, Study, Act Cycle. 

An example of a mock improvement project is used to show the iterative nature of the PDSA Cycle, the role of data, and how you change your test parameters based on your data.  PDSA Cycles are imperative to use before any large scale change is implemented.

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