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Do you have people on the team who are:  \n\n| Enthusiastic about fixing this problem? |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Involved in delivering care related to this problem? |  |\n| Influential enough to get more people involved? |  |\n\nImproving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities  \nSTEP: 2   \nAnalysing the problem and measuring the quality of care  \n\n| What tools will you use for the analysis?\u003Cbr>What information do you want from each tool that you plan to use? | |\n| --- | --- |\n| What measures will you use?\u003Cbr>Process Measure: Numerator: Denominator:\u003Cbr>Outcome Measure: Numerator: Denominator:\u003Cbr>How will you collect the data?\u003Cbr>Process measure: Person responsible for data collection: What data sources will you use? What baseline data will you collect? How frequently will you collect and review data?\u003Cbr>Outcome measure: Person responsible for data collection: What data sources will you use? 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How frequently will you collect and review data? |  |\n\nImproving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities  \nStep 2-Project Review Checklist  \nWhy is this the right analysis plan?  \n\n| Will the tools you have chosen help you to identify the right changes? |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Do you have people on the team who can analyse what happens at the patient level? |  |\n\nWhy is this the right measurement plan?  \n\n| How difficult will it be to collect the data? |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Easy to measure valid data? |  |\n| Are these new data variables? |  |\n| Can you review these data frequently? |  |\n| What will be the plan to share and analyse the data? |  |\n\n*A simple MS Excel file is provided in the USB flash drive for analyzing data and making time-series charts (run charts) .  \nImproving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities  \nSTEP: 3   \nDeveloping and testing changes  \n\n| \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>What changes do you think will help solve the problem and why do you think it will improve care? |\n| --- |\n| Change Why do you think it will improve care?\u003Cbr>PDSA cycle 1 Plan Change to be tested Who will test? (if this person is not on the QI team, he/she should be added) Over how much time will the test be done? When will it take place? What will you measure? What do you predict will happen? Do Study When will the team meet to review? 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