CPSA’s Standards of Practice Quality Improvement

Mandatory elements of this PPIP activity

• Using a CPSA standard of practice (SoP) as a benchmark to reflect on practice data and assess your adherence to a corresponding SoP. For example:
  • Review your EMR and patient data and ensure you’re meeting the requirements of the Patient Record Content
  • If you are a consultant physician, use elements of the Referral Consultation standard to evaluate your reports.
  • Other sources of data include:
    • Aggregate, retrospective data on your patient populations available through Connect Care (contact AHS via their ServiceHub if you need assistance accessing this data)
    • AHS’ Health System Access for Research
    • The Finding Encounters tool from AHS’ Connect Care Manual
• Developing and documenting an action plan to capture how you plan to address and implement your improvement opportunity.
  • We recommend using SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely) goals to increase the likelihood of success.
  • You may also want to familiarize yourself with the iterative nature of quality improvement, for example by reviewing the PDSA (Plan Do Study Act) cycle.
  • CPSA has a template for an action plan on our website, or you can create your own.

CPSA also has two existing competence tools that meet the requirements of a standard of practice QI activity:

• • Complete an online, self-directed review of your patient records, using our Standards of Practice Metrics tool (we have a version for primary care and one for referral encounters).
  • If you’re part of a group practice, strengthen and enhance it through our Group Practice Review.