Food and Nutrition Practitioners are increasingly engaging in quality improvement throughout their practice settings. Many are implementing quality measures in their facilities and/or conducting quality improvement and performance measurement activities. The below Academy definitions and resources provide insight into QI for all practice segments of food, nutrition and dietetics including; health care, education and research, business and industry, and community nutrition and public health.
Quality Improvement consists of systematic and continuous actions that lead to measurable improvement in services and/or the status of targeted individuals or groups.
Performance Improvement is the systematic process of detecting and analyzing performance problems, designing and developing interventions to address the problems, implementing the interventions, evaluating the results, and sustaining improvement.
Learn about the Academy's vast array of quality management resources and how to easily navigate to each of them on eatrightPRO.
In this microlearning series, learn about strategic Academy collaborations with QCDR, new malnutrition quality measures, and how QCDRs can be beneficial to RDNs for reporting data to CMS.
Find information and resources for related to Malnutrition Quality Measures included in Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) .
These QCDR FAQs are divided into four sections: General Questions, QCDR Participation, Enrollment, and Data Submission.
The Academy is a measure steward of four malnutrition electronic clinical quality measures.
Learn more about eCQMs, including the various roles for getting involved with eCQMs, as well as how they were developed.
The Quality Improvement 101 education package includes a slide library with talking points, QI 101 recorded presentation and two case study examples for the practitioner and for the student/intern.
In this recorded presentation, understand the basics of quality improvement, learn simple quality improvement tools and methods, and identify key Academy available resources available for conducting quality improvement in a variety of practice settings.
