Implementing Daily Management Systems to Support Sustained Quality Improvement in Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Quality improvement processes and management approaches that provide a foundation for continuous quality improvement can lead to improved patient care. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement developed a high‐performance management system ( HPMS ) for health care leaders and staff members to effect continuous quality control, and then conducted a pilot of the system in several ambulatory surgery centers ( ASC s). The primary focus of the pilot...