{"id":631,"date":"2015-12-10T19:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2021-01-27T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:02:24","slug":"ihi-2015-poster-use-of-quality-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/ihi-2015-poster-use-of-quality-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"IHI 2015 Poster Use of Quality Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his speech Sunday at IHI, Don Berwick called for everyone to \u201crecommit to improvement science\u201d (step 5 in ERA 3 of healthcare\u00a0transformation).<\/p>\n

He sounded annoyed with the lack of use of Lean Six Sigma\u00a0tools and methodologies.<\/p>\n

I understand his frustration. I was there in 2006 when he asked everyone to \u201cpledge allegiance to science and evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the years, I\u2019ve done a stroke tally of the quality tools used in IHI poster presentations.<\/p>\n

I gave each poster one checkmark for each type of tool used.<\/p>\n

\"IHI-2015-poster-use-of-tools\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadly, even with all of the emphasis on control charts, Pareto charts and other tools of quality, they are used rarely in poster presentations.<\/p>\n

The vast majority are Excel line, bar or column charts (see attached).<\/p>\n

The IHI sessions on High Reliability Healthcare (e.g., Memorial Hermann) suggest that zero defects are possible with Lean Six Sigma and change management\u2014basically \u201cimprovement science\u201d.<\/p>\n

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In his speech Sunday at IHI, Don Berwick called for everyone to “recommit to improvement science” (step 5 in ERA 3 of healthcare transformation). He sounded annoyed with the lack of use of Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies. I understand his frustration. I was there in 2006 when he asked everyone to “pledge allegiance to science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,5,7],"tags":[439,216,70,158],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-qi-macros","category-six-sigma","tag-control-charts","tag-ihi","tag-pareto-chart","tag-quality-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}