Formative Evaluation Feedback Loops

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Abstract

The gurus of healthcare quality improvement going back a hundred years ago, notably Walter Shewhart and W Edwards Deming, were instrumental in developing project control charts and the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) model of change to impose order and coordination over improvement projects. Many decades later people came to realize that, while enormously useful templates for improvement activities, the PDSA cycle was not often used as a longitudinal device. Instead, many projects were short-term and consisted of one or at most two PDSA cycles. The Formative Evaluation Feedback Loop (FEFL) model introduces three additional concepts to the PDSA model: ongoing cycles of activity, regular feedback to the architects of the change so that further improvement is stimulated, encompassed in an evaluation framework.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImplementation science
Subtitle of host publicationthe key concepts
EditorsFrances Rapport, Robyn Clay-Williams, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Place of PublicationLondon ; New York
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Chapter21
Pages85-88
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781003109945
ISBN (Print)9780367626112, 9780367626136
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jun 2022

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