General instructions

Use the topic identified in the Week 1 discussion to address the assignment criteria. (YOU CAN CHOOSE A TOPIC)
Use the Week 5 Quality Improvement Worksheet Template Links to an external site. or create a template of your choice. Save the template and include your name in the file name.
Complete the Quality Improvement Template. Use complete sentences.
Follow APA grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation rules consistent with formal, scholarly writing.
Provide an in-text citation from three scholarly sources to support your writing.

Introduction

Identify a quality or client safety issue.
Provide a background of the issue, including the scope, impact, and rationale for the selected issue.
You may reuse content from your Week 1 Discussion post to introduce the issue.
Quality Measures
Select one NCQA HEDIS performance measure Links to an external site. related to your selected quality or client safety issue. Note: Expand each HEDIS domain to review the associated performance measures.
Select and define the data that would be collected to inform the QI project.
Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
Regulatory Guidelines and Benchmarks
Identify regulatory guidelines to inform quality improvement.
Identify the internal and external benchmarks that would exhibit success in quality improvement.
Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
Data Analysis Techniques
Describe one data analysis technique used in quality improvement that could be used to evaluate the problem.
Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.

Dissemination

Identify at least two ways to disseminate the quality improvement results.
Identify the key stakeholder to whom the information would be disseminated.
Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.

Reflection
Discuss how you will apply the quality improvement strategies in your practice. Reflect on what you have learned from this assignment.

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