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Spreading Changes

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has developed and adapted a suite of tools to help organizations accelerate their work in spreading improvements made at the local level across the system. In addition, many organizations have developed tools in the course of their spread efforts — for example, successful protocols, order sets and forms, instructions and guidelines for implementing key changes — and are making them available on IHI.org for others to use or adapt in their own organizations. We invite you to submit tools you have found useful!


The tools below are grouped according to the components of the Framework for Spread.

Better Ideas
Communication
Information Gathering Tools
Set-up

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Better Ideas

This exercise is designed to actively engage a group of people in responding to a new idea and assess their likelihood to adopt it. The tool uses Everett Rogers’s attributes to help illustrate the diffusion curve related to spread; developed by Sarah W. Fraser Associates (Aylesbury, United Kingdom)

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Communication

The scorecard helps organizations and spread teams assess the ease (or difficulty) of spreading a new idea or innovation. This tool uses Everett Rogers’ attributes of a change that affect the rate of adoption as a reference; developed by Sarah W. Fraser Associates (Aylesbury, United Kingdom)

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Information Gathering Tools

This annotated bibliography provides a rich listing of books and articles that discuss the topic of collaborative improvement and spreading ideas.

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Set-up

The Spread Planner is a set of questions designed to assist organizations in identifying the key actions they can take to turn a local success into a system-wide improvement; developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

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