1. [Insert Title of Project]
Presenter’s Name
Dec. 6th, 2009
Personal Improvement Project
21st Annual IHI National Forum on Quality and Safety in Health care

2. Introduction & Background
Describe best practices (if available) from the literature
Describe your efforts to address this problem
Why is this issue important to you at this time?

3. Aim
State your project aim.
Remember “how much, by when?”

4. Setting/Context
Describe the current structures, processes, and patterns that exist
A process flow diagram or deployment flow diagram may be helpful

5. Measures Describe the measures that were used
How do the measures relate to the process?
Process, Outcome, Balancing measures?

6. Results
Display your results in a summary table or graph

7. Intervention Completely describe the change that was planned
How was it connected to the process?

8. Conclusions List the most important lessons learned
Limitations of this current project
Describe the next steps