Defining the Aim

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1. Planning Your Improvements: Defining the Aim

What is it and how will it help?

Any quality improvement project needs a clear aim statement that is time-specific and measurable, and defines the population of patients who will be affected.

Agreeing on the aim is crucial, as is allocating the people and resources necessary to accomplish it.

 

Need more information?

Science of Improvement: Setting Aims
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

How to create an aim statement.

Science of Improvement: Tips for Setting Aims
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Five tips for effectively setting aims.

How to Write a SMART Goal YouTube White board Presentation (2 min)
Project Smart

A quick explanation of how to write a SMART Goal.

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The Divisions of Family Practice acknowledge that we work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many different Indigenous Nations throughout British Columbia.

Acknowledging that we are on the traditional territories of Indigenous communities is an expression of cultural humility and involves recognizing our duty and desire to support the provision of culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in BC.