Developing and implementing a plan of action to improve care. The basics

Home Healthc Nurse. 2002 Sep;20(9):596-602. doi: 10.1097/00004045-200209000-00012.

Abstract

Once agencies have completed a process-of-care investigation, the next step of OBQI is the development and implementation of a plan of action to improve care. In this article, the authors share strategies for developing, implementing, and monitoring a successful plan of action and describe how pilot agencies developed their own action plan.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Home Care Services / standards*
  • Humans
  • Organizational Innovation
  • Organizational Objectives
  • Planning Techniques
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Program Development / methods*
  • Total Quality Management / methods*
  • United States