Using Quality Improvement in Athletic Training

Abstract:
Quality Improvement (QI) is the process of getting better. In athletic training we have many systems and processes in which we work in and deliver patient care through. The ability for an athletic trainer to identify, evaluate, and enact change in a system or process is a critical skill to improve the delivery of care in a safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient centered manner. This presentation will identify the origins and components of QI in health care, discuss the Model For Improvement as a framework by which athletic trainers can implement QI into the systems and processes in their local clinical practice, and provide relevant examples of how the QI process can be implemented within athletic training clinical practice.

Objectives:

• Participants will be able to explain the foundations of the science of improvement and continuous quality improvement in health care., 
• Participants will be able to articulate the Model for Improvement in the context of health care., 
• Participants will be able to consider areas for quality improvement in one's practice.

Level:
Essential

Domains:
Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility

CEUs:
1.0 Category A

Keywords: quality improvement, patient care, health care, model for improvement, QI

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