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For a practice-driven quality improvement activity, you must review and reflect on data from your practice, such as scheduling, screening or reporting data, vital sign acquisitions, prescribing data or any other data is available to you that pertains to your specific area of practice.
Examples of data sources include:
- EMR data
- Patient access data
- MD Snapshot-Prescribing
- Primary Healthcare Panel Reports from the Health Quality Council of Alberta
- Compliance with reporting standards
- Feedback data from teaching
- Research/publication statistics
- Connect Care Dashboards/Reports
- Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN)
- Requesting AHS Data Resources | Alberta Health Services
PPIP supports the use of data in an ethical manner. CPSA encourages physicians to use the following free resource and support tools if there are questions regarding ethical data usage: Alberta Innovates: A Project Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI)
For a CPSA standards of practice activity, your data comes from a self-assessment of your adherence to a standard of practice relevant to your practice. For example, if you are a consultant physician, you can use elements of the Referral Consultation standard of practice as a benchmark. Your data may be drawn from reports you write, whether your assessment is directly of the patient or of investigations associated with the patient.
For the personal development PPIP activity, your data comes from feedback (for example, from learners, patients or colleagues) This feedback could be gathered through performance reviews from your colleagues, teaching evaluations or patient surveys.