Table 11 Competencies related to quality improvement

Identify errors and hazards in care, understand and implement basic safety design principles; continually understand and measure quality of care

Conduct a situation analysis across a range of cultural, economic, and health contexts

Develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess programs/Using data for implementation

Data-based decision-making and evaluation: The capacity to collect and utilize data coming from monitoring and evaluation activities to make decisions regarding service implementation. This may include monitoring fidelity and acquiring feedback from implementers about the progress of EBP implementation/How to measure if implementing optimally; Making data-informed decisions

Design context-specific health interventions based upon situation analysis

Design program work plans based on logic models/ Planning: Ensure that the organization rigorously develops a feasible execution plan/Plan an evaluation of KT impact.

Apply scientific evidence throughout program planning, implementation, and evaluation/Plan a KT process

Conduct improvement cycles: Continuously use data to purposefully re-examine implementation processes and improve practice, organization and system changes/ Reflecting and evaluating: Regularly review the progress of execution for evaluation and improvement.