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We’ve made it easier for you to interpret data on Quality Insight by highlighting two significant patterns of change in run charts: A...

Sampling for data collection in improvement projects

In the journal article, Sampling Considerations for Health Care Improvement, the authors present a practical approach to data collection that takes...

Harnessing the cloud of patient experience: using social media to detect poor quality healthcare

In this commentary in BMJ's Quality and Safety Journal, the authors outline the ways in which the collection and aggregation of patients’...

The patient experience and health outcomes (NEJM Perspective)

Although there are unresolved methodologic issues related to the measurement and interpretation of patient experiences — regarding survey...

Pre-Quality Summit workshop with Helen Bevan: Building contagious commitment for change

If you’re attending the Quality Summit, you have the opportunity to also register for a dynamic, interactive pre-Summit workshop with Helen...

Sharing Saskatchewan's story with the world

Saskatchewan is the first province in Canada to attempt large-scale improvements in patient-centred care using Lean. This video, Putting patients...

What has greatest impact on hospital patient experience scores?

The Health Quality Council looked at results from the Acute Care Patient Experience Survey in Saskatchewan to see which elements of care are most...

Measure what matters

The authors of the article, "More quality measures versus measuring what matters: a call for balance and parsimony" in BMJ's Quality and Safety...

Quality Insight offers more complete picture of acute care patient experience

Now you can find on Quality Insight results for all aspects of the Acute Care Patient Experience Survey. We've added the following nine indicators to...

Access to cancer care in SK improving

Six access to cancer care indicators that have been added to Quality Insight are showing that access has improved over the last two years. To see the...

Health Quality Council's 10th annual report

The Health Quality Counci's annual report, released this week, illustrates how its collaborative endeavors with the health system in the last...

KISS (keep it simple stupid) and tell

There are a whole host of immediate forms of measurement and reporting that never make it to the newspapers, but arguably have much more impact on...

Measuring and reporting: Bringing heat AND light to improvement efforts

Take a look at this post--on the new Health Quality Council (HQC) blog, Qreview--by Dr. Gary Teare, HQC's Director of Quality Measurement and...

Run charts rule!

Run charts are graphs that display data about a process or system over time; they are frequently used for monitoring quality improvement initiatives....

PowerPoints from Quality Summit presenters now available

The 2012 Quality Summit was a great success with over 700 people attending. The PowerPoint presentations, including the one from the Pre-Summit...

Developing a measurement system for improvement in Saskatchewan

WANTED - Partners to create a measurement system for continuous improvement at all levels of Saskatchewan's health care system: Join HQC and...

New monthly and quarterly Patient Experience data now available

New monthly and quarterly data - to December 2011 - for the Acute Care Patient Experience Survey indicators have just been added to Quality Insight.

New video blog on Quality Insight

Cypress Health Region is the first region in Saskatchewan to have its quality of care indicators published on Quality Insight. Why did Cypress want...

Quality indicator toolkit for hospitals

This toolkit from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the U.S. is designed to help hospitals understand the Quality Indicators...

NHS guide to improving services

This document, "First steps toward quality improvement: A simple guide to improving services", is from National Health Services Improvement in the...

Free access to IHI Open School

HQC has teamed up with IHI to offer people living and working in Saskatchewan free* access to IHI’s popular Open School for Health...

Hospital system offers emergency room check-in from home

In the St. Louis area, SSM Health Care uses InQuicker to let patients  check in from home. Patients with minor emergencies can go online and use...

IHI National Forum presentations now on IHI TV

For Saskatchewan residents only: The Health Quality Council has purchased a license to allow you to see videos of keynote presentations and...

Quality Insight's first regional dashboard

Want to see Quality Insight’s first regional dashboard? Choose Cypress from the list of health regions near the top right-hand side of this...

Two states survey nursing home residents to assess care

At the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, researchers from Minnesota and Ohio explained how consumers in those states can find...

Improving patient-provider interactions key to improving patient experience in Saskatchewan emergency departments

This is one of the key findings from the province’s first emergency department patient experience survey, conducted earlier this year. In a...

Hospitals (in the US) with best patient satisfaction to draw in reimbursements

Love it or hate it, more hospitals are taking note of patient satisfaction with reimbursements on the line.Effective October 2012, the Centers for...

Grumpiest Hospital Patients Are In New York City, Chicago and Florida

The Kaiser Health News blog says patients in those regions of the United States gave some of the lowest evaluations of their hospital stays.

New enhancements to Quality Insight

As of today there’s a new look and a few new features on this homepage: A map of Saskatchewan that makes it easier to access provincial,...

An expert shows how to use run charts and control charts for quality improvement

This On Demand video presentation, Using Run and Control Charts to Understand Variation, featuring IHI’s Executive Director of Performance...

What do sports stats and health care data have in common?

A fun new Saskatchewan-made blog looks at the connection between sports statistical analysis and the use of data in health care… Read more

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This electronic newsletter features news related to patient experience surveys and stories on Saskatchewan hospitals and health regions that are...