RSNA 2009 Meeting Preview - Radiological Society of North America
RSNA 2009 Meeting Preview - Radiological Society of North America
RSNA 2009 Meeting Preview - Radiological Society of North America
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<strong>RSNA</strong> ON THE WEB<br />
<strong>RSNA</strong>.org<br />
Access <strong>RSNA</strong>’s Quality Improvement Tool Box<br />
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF the comprehensive compendium <strong>of</strong> tools compiled by <strong>RSNA</strong>’s Quality<br />
Improvement Committee to help members meet practice improvement requirements, go to the<br />
Quality Improvement Page at <strong>RSNA</strong>.org/Quality.<br />
Once there, click Tools on the left-hand side and then choose<br />
from the following list.<br />
Brainstorming: Users are given the steps needed to create a<br />
brainstorming session or organized process for generating a list<br />
<strong>of</strong> ideas about an issue or process. Sessions can <strong>of</strong>ten last several<br />
hours.<br />
Cause & Effect Diagram: Sometimes referred to as a Fishbone<br />
Diagram, this tool is used to categorize and organize ideas about<br />
contributing factors and their relationships within a process.<br />
Flowchart: Users can learn to create this design or map illustrating<br />
the steps and decision points that make up a work process<br />
enabling the team to examine individual steps and identify problems<br />
and improvement opportunities.<br />
Multivoting: Usually following a brainstorming session, this<br />
simple, structured approach for selecting the most significant or<br />
highest priority item from a list relies on popular opinion and is a<br />
method <strong>of</strong> prioritizing projects or elements <strong>of</strong> projects.<br />
Nominal Group Technique: This method for generating a list <strong>of</strong><br />
ideas and/or condensing ideas into a manageable number is more<br />
formal and structured than brainstorming or multivoting.<br />
Prioritization Matrix: Teams can use this tool to achieve consensus<br />
about an issue by helping to rank problems or issues by<br />
particular criteria important to the organization.<br />
This quality improvement tool box also provides links to<br />
resources that provide examples or templates <strong>of</strong> tools used in quality<br />
improvement including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement<br />
(www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/Improvement<br />
Methods), Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (www.cebm.net)<br />
and Quality Tools & Definitions (www.syque.com/<br />
quality_tools).<br />
Create a Custom Tab for Radiology Publications<br />
<strong>RSNA</strong> <strong>of</strong>fers widgets for the <strong>America</strong>n Journal <strong>of</strong> Neuroradiology<br />
and <strong>America</strong>n Journal <strong>of</strong> Roentgenology. To create a<br />
custom tab to keep the journals in one place on your desktop,<br />
first remove any publication widgets from your my<strong>RSNA</strong> ® main<br />
page at my<strong>RSNA</strong>.org. Then, select Add Tab on the upper righthand<br />
corner, choose Dashboard, give the tab a name and click Add Tab. With<br />
the new tab up, click Add Stuff and select widgets for the desired publications.<br />
Your new tab will keep your publications in one place.<br />
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