title: Rapid cycle change sells itself.
abstract: Strategic quality management consultants at Quorum Health Resources, LLC, headquartered in Brentwood, TN, recently introduced rapid cycle change to hospital clients. The answers to three defined questions, the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, and testing the improvements on a small scale under a variety of conditions are the basis of rapid cycle change. The initial results are encouraging. To obtain a deeper evaluation of the clients' experience, a modified qualitative research methodology was utilized to obtain and analyze information. Five themes emerged that support rapid cycle change as an elegantly simple and effective model.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Crowe
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006302:Health Services Research; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000592:standards*; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009820:Ohio; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*