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Achieving Health Equity

Lesson Two Key Concepts

  • The PDSA model is a simple yet powerful tool for accelerating health care quality improvement. After testing a change on a small scale, learning from each test, and refining the change through several PDSA cycles, you can apply the change on a larger scale with greater success.
  • The Disparities Impact Statement helps organizations navigate a four-step process to identify and address health care disparities by:
    • Identifying vulnerable populations and their disparities
    • Setting SMART aims
    • Developing an action plan
    • Monitoring, improving, and disseminating changes