The Anatomy of an AIM Statement
"48 hours"
To decrease the waiting time for an MRI scan on the inpatient service from 48 hours in July, 2025 to 24 hours in December, 2025.
What is Baseline Value?
A tool to organize contributing factors of a problem in categories
What is a Fishbone Diagram?
Plan, Do, Study, Act
What is a PDSA cycle?
A process that uses data to identify gaps and design possible solutions for clinical and operational improvements
What is Performance Improvement?
"July, 2025"
To decrease the waiting time for an MRI scan on the inpatient service from 48 hours in July, 2025 to 24 hours in December, 2025.
What is Baseline Date?
What is a Gemba Walk?
3 options to decide on our change ideas after we learned from our first PDSA cycle
What is Adapt, Adopt, or Abandon?
Collecting data for monitoring and reporting
"24 hours"
To decrease the waiting time for an MRI scan on the inpatient service from 48 hours in July, 2025 to 24 hours in December, 2025.
What is Target Value?
A method to explore cause-and-effect relationships underlying a problem, also familiar among toddlers
What is The 5 Whys?
A website where you document your PI projects
What is DnA?
"December 2025"
To decrease the waiting time for an MRI scan on the inpatient service from 48 hours in July, 2025 to 24 hours in December, 2025.
What is Target Date?
Visual representation of the sequence of events in a process
What is a Process Map?
Our current hospital-wide PI project
What is the Inpatient Lean Team?
"The waiting time for an MRI scan"
To decrease the waiting time for an MRI scan on the inpatient service from 48 hours in July, 2025 to 24 hours in December, 2025.
What is Outcome Measure?
A tool to help us get from the problem to our change ideas
What is a Driver Diagram?