Team Concepts in Quality Improvement
Outstanding Teams
Commonalities
QI as a Team Process
Infrastructure to Support QI Teams
When is a Team Required?
Roles and Responsibility of QI Team Members
Team Performance
QI Tools: Brainstorming, Mulitvoting, Affinity Diagrams
Utilizes team member knowledge, skills and experience
Support from Leadership and Org Culture
Sponsor
Team Leader
Facilitator
Data Analyst
Team Contributors
Systems SME
Barriers to teams
Teams that Work Well
Scribe/Note Taker
The improvement cuts across multiple roles/units/departments
The Process to improve is complex
The Improvement is Not a "Quick Fix"
The problem is reoccurring
Multiple cycles of PDSA may be involved