Tracer Methodology: Tips and Strategies for Continuous Systems Improvement

"Applied Tracer Methodology: Tips and Strategies for Continuous Systems Improvement" guides all types of health care organizations through a systematic step-by-step process for successfully integrating tracer methodology into their continuous systems improvement efforts. In addition, "Applied Tracer Methodology" shares hands-on experiences and insights from leading experts in the field, profiles health care organizations across the spectrum of care that have effectively used tracer methodology, and provides insights from Joint Commission staff and surveyors about how tracers can help with ongoing improvement efforts. This book will help you: understand and train staff in tracer methodology; assess your health care organization to understand its unique features and needs; design an organization-specific tracer methodology process; implement tracer methodology into ongoing improvement efforts and conducting tracers; use the data from tracers and understanding what they indicate; make improvements based on tracers; and, re-conduct tracers to validate and verify improvement efforts.