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Timeline - What, when and how to do it

Update: Project review by the ABR has been delayed. The ABR has altered their previously published required project schedule (original schedule is outlined below). Please refer to the ABR website for more information. Preliminarily, the original published timeline will still be honored but we are revising our content to reflect the new schedule - ETA May 2008.

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ABR Maintenance of Certification, Part IV, Quality Improvement Steps

Year 1

  • Learn about PQI process

  • Select project and metric(s)

Year 2

  • Collect baseline data

Year 3

  • Analyze the data

  • Work on improvement plan

Year 4

  • Collect data, compare with initial data

  • Summarize results

Year 5

  • Modify improvement plan

  • Implement plan

Year 6

  • Collect, analyze and summarize modified improvement plan data

  • If goals achieved, select additional PQI project

Year 7

  • Refine improvement plan

  • Implement plan

Year 8

  • Continue collecting data

Year 9

  • Complete collection of improvement plan data

  • Analyze data

  • Summarize data

Year 10

  • Prepare a final report of results and conclusions

  • Maintain gain of first cycle

  • Select topic for next cycle