Factsheet: Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle

Factsheet: Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle

Published: November 6, 2023 Last reviewed: April 24, 2025
Description:

Factsheet provides a summary of a popular quality improvement model known as the "Plan-Do-Study-Act" cycle. Community-based organizations can use this model to test a small change and evaluate its effectiveness and any lessons learned before implementing the change more widely. For example, organizations might test an outreach strategy with a segment of their population before scaling it to see if it needs any tweaks first. The full resource is available here: How to Improve: Model for Improvement: Testing Changes | IHI.

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