Identifying Possible Changes Using a Driver Diagram

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5. Planning Your Improvements: Identifying Possible Changes Using a Driver Diagram

What is it and how will it help?

Driver Diagrams provide a pictorial representation of the system in which you are working and the factors leading to the outcome. It's an effective way to translate a high-level improvement aim into a logical set of related goals and sub-projects.

 

Where can I find out more information?

Quality Service and Improvement Tools: Driver Diagrams
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

What is a Key Driver Diagram and how do they help?

Developing a Key Driver Diagram PowerPoint Desk
Learning Emergence  

Key Driver Diagram basics.

Driver Diagram YouTube Whiteboard Presentation (6 min)
IHI Open School

Whiteboard presentation: How to use a Key Driver Diagram to define the system by showing the factors that cause the outcomes.

Driver Diagram Instruction
Health Quality Ontario

A simple example of a Key Driver Diagram and how to use it.

Driver Diagram Examples
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

Examples of Key Driver Diagrams.

FPSCBritish ColumbiaDoctors of BC

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.