| Self-reported % of time spent on encouraging application of process improvement tools (n = 5) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Process improvement tools | Stroke-QUERI facilitators | Industrial engineer (IE) facilitators | |||
(Implementation researchers) | (VERC VA-CASE) | ||||
 | 022001 | 022003 | 022005 | 022002 | 022004 |
• Project charter | 25% | 20% | 30% | 25% | 20% |
• Process map | 15% | 10% | 50% | 25% | 80% |
• Spaghetti diagram | 15% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 15% |
• Impact effort matrix | 15% | 10% | 20%–40% | 10% | 0% |
• PDSA (plan, do, study, act) cycles | 80% | 20% | 100% | 75% | 80% |