title: Developing and implementing a plan of action to improve care. The basics.
abstract: Once agencies have completed a process-of-care investigation, the next step of OBQI is the development and implementation of a plan of action to improve care. In this article, the authors share strategies for developing, implementing, and monitoring a successful plan of action and describe how pilot agencies developed their own action plan.
mesh_terms: D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States