Did you know that your project on Life QI has a progress score on the general tab?
The progress score is designed for you to assess how far your project has developed against a standard range of score numbers from 0.5 through to 5.0. There is sometimes a little confusion in that project teams do not realise (or have never been told) that the progress score is not set by the Life QI system; it is not an automatic progression and it is up to the project team to review and manually move their project score onwards by updating the score on the system.
The benefits of keeping your QI Progress Score up to date are twofold: it helps the project team feel that they are moving forward with their project, so it can be very motivating and it shows external viewers where you are in your QI journey.
First, let us look at what the scores mean.
Here is a table of the scores and their definitions as they appear on Life QI:
IHI Standard Assessment
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Intent to Participate Project has been identified, but the charter has not been completed nor team formed. |
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Charter and team established A charter has been completed and reviewed. Individuals or teams have been assigned, but no work has been accomplished. |
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Planning for the project has begun Organisation of project structure has begun (such as: what resources or other support will likely be needed, where will focus first, tools/materials need gathered, meeting schedule developed). |
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Activity, but no changes Initial cycles for team learning have begun (project planning, measurement, data collection, obtaining baseline data, study of processes, surveys etc.). |
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Changes tested, but no improvement Initial cycles for testing changes have begun. Most project goals have a measure established to track progress. Measures are graphically displayed with targets included. |
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Modest improvement Successful test of changes have been completed for some components of the change package related to the team's charter. Some small scale implementation has been done. Anecdotal evidence of improvement exists. Expected results are 20% complete. |
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Improvement Testing and implementation continues and additional improvement in project measures towards goals is seen. |
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Significant improvement Expected results achieved for major subsystems. Implementation (training, communication etc.) has begun for the project. Project goals are 50% or more complete. |
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Sustainable improvement Data on key measures begin to indicate sustainability of impact of changes implemented in system. |
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Outstanding sustainable results Implementation cycles have been completed and all project goals and expected results have accomplished. Organisational changes have been made to accommodate improvements and to make the project changes permanent. |
Reference: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (2004) Assessment Scale for Collaboratives