Quality Improvement Corner
Improving the quality of acute stroke care in all Minnesota hospitals is the primary goal of the Minnesota Stroke Registry program. Our program team is eager to work with hospitals in Minnesota on achieving optimal care for stroke patients!
Our Quality Improvement (QI) Services:
- Personalized QI consultations |
- Ongoing QI technical assistance upon request |
- Semi-annual QI data reports and data analysis upon request |
- Connecting hospitals with stroke QI tools and other resources |
- Coordinating the QI Interest Group: we are using Google Groups as an interactive discussion platform. In addition, we facilitate teleconference calls in coordination with American Heart Association and the Great Lakes Regional Stroke Network |
- Facilitating the Minnesota Stroke Registry Performance Improvement Collaborative |
- Conducting an annual QI assessment |
- Coverdell Recognition Program (in development!) |
We have several materials and resources for stroke quality improvement available. Click on the following links or the left-navigation menu to find them:
QI
Tools: Guidelines, Articles, Order Sets and More
QI Models
QI Questions
Downloads:
Quality Improvement Technical Assistance Services (pdf, 82 kb, updated/posted 2/15/2010)
Instructions for joining and participating QI Google Group (pdf, 4 pages, 52 kb, posted 12/1/2009)
Consent for Sharing Materials with the Minnesota Stroke Registry (pdf 1 page, 45 kb, posted 1/19/2010)
Go to the "Downloads" Page for all downloadable documents
