Whole System Measures
This IHI white paper describes and promotes the use of a system of metrics, called the Whole System Measures, to measure the overall quality of a health system and to align improvement work across a hospital, group practice, or large health care system.
How to build high-quality interprofessional collaboration and education in your hospital: the IP-COMPASS tool
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important contributor to ensuring interprofessional collaboration and, ultimately, improving the quality of health care. However, there is a gap in available resources on critical success factors for implementing intentional interprofessional learning experiences. The Interprofessional Collaborative Organizational Map and Preparedness Assessment (IP-COMPASS) is a quality improvement framework that provides a structured process to help health care organizations become better prepared to offer IPE.
Interprofessional Collaborative Organization Map and Preparedness Assessment (IP-COMPASS)
IP-COMPASS is a quality improvement framework to help clinical settings become better prepared to provide intentional interprofessional learning experiences (i.e., learning experiences that help students develop skills for interprofessional collaboration). It provides a structured process to help you understand the types of organizational values, structures, processes, practices and behaviours that, when aligned, can create an environment that is conducive to interprofessional learning.
Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Competency Survey
This version of the IPEC Competency Self-Assessment Tool is a 42-item self-assessment questionnaire with items based on the competencies defined by the Interprofessional Education Collaboartive expert panel. It is designed for health professional students to rate their ability level on each competency using a 5-point Likert scale.
AITCS: Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale
The Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS) is a 37 item inventory with 4 subscales: partnership, cooperation, coordination, and shared decision making. Authors concluded it was a valid and reliable instrument. They found it to load on 3 factors explaining 61.02% of the variance. Internal consistency reliability for each subscale ranged from 0.80 to 0.97, with an overall reliability of 0.98.
Interprofessional Education Assessment and Planning Instrument for Academic Institutions
The Interprofessional Education Assessment and Planning Instrument for Academic Institutions was designed to do the following: 1) assist institutions in gauging where they are in development of Interprofessional Prevention Education and 2) assist institutions wishing to further advance Interprofessional Education with an emphasis on prevention.
This tool will allow institutions to asses where they are in the development of IPE on their campuses.
T-TPQ: TeamSTEPPS® Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire and T-TAQ: Teamwork Attitudes Questionairre Tool Set
The TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire (T-TPQ) was developed to assess health professionals' perceptions of interprofessional teamwork within an organization and group-level team skills and behavior.
T-TAQ is used to measure how individuals approach team related issues. The TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ) was developed to assess the impact of interprofessional education on health professionals' attitudes, knowledge, and team skills.
PACT: Performance Assessment for Communication and Teamwork Tool Set
Performance Assessment for Communication and Teamwork Tool Set was developed to assess performance on team work and communication in simulated scenarios.
The Performance Assessment for Communication and Teamwork Tool Set (PACT) was developed to assess teamwork and communication performance in simulated environments.
HCAHPS: Health Care Quality Information from the Consumer Perspective
The Health Care Quality Information from the Consumer Perspective (HCAHPS, pronounced "H-caps"), also known as the CAHPS Hospital Survey, is a survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients' perceptions of their hospital experience.
CAHPS surveys focus on aspects of care that meet two criteria:
SOAPC: Survey of Organizational Attributes of Primary Care
The Survey of Organizational Attributes of Primary Care (SOAPC) was developed to assess health care professionals' perceptions of the organizational resources for change required in primary care settings and measures organizational attributes of practice teams as providers of quality of care.