STARTING A QUALITY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Quality Management in Your Practice
Basic instructions for creating an anesthesiology quality management program.

Quality Management in Your Practice: A Nuts & Bolts Primer (PPT)
Slides on starting a QM program.

AQI Quality is... (PDF)
September 2011 Webinar slides presented by Christine Doyle, MD

Anesthesiology Department Quality Checklist 
A compendium of questions to help anesthesiology departments develop a comprehensive set of quality standards.  Questions are broken down for various roles including: chair of anesthesia, staff anesthesiologist, surgeon, perioperative nursing manager, operating room nurse, PACU nursing manager, obstetric nursing manager, quality management, administration, anesthesia technicians, CRNAs and AAs, and office based anesthesia facilities.

Quality Management and Departmental Administration (QMDA) Toolkit (ASA login required)
Non-members may purchase the toolkit here.

Toolkit includes information on the following topics:

• 2010 Manual for Anesthesia Department Organization and Management (MADOM)
• Anesthesia Consultation Program
• ASA Standards, Guidelines and Statements
• Sample Policy and Procedure Statements
• Joint Commission
• Joint Commission FAQs
• Further Reading on SEA 32 and Unintended Awareness During Anesthesia
• Educational Materials for Non-Anesthesiologists
• Quality Management Software System