Ramping Up PDSAs and Small Tests of Change

Summary

In our fourth clinic of the Cardi-OH ECHO QI Cardiovascular Series, co-lead Aleece Caron, PhD, discusses how to scale up PDSA cycles from small tests to system-level change and how to apply these strategies to the clinics' own projects. She then provides real-world examples to demonstrate sustained improvement. Participants then review a clinical pearl on flowcharts for success in out-of-office blood pressure measurements and discuss a pretend case on how a clinic can begin a QI project on smoking cessation and the action plan required to meet the target outcome.