PDSA is:
a. a national quality improvement campaign
b. process, demonstrate, supervise, and analyze
c. an acronym for an EBP model
d. part of the 100,000 Lives Campaign
C
The acronym PDSA refers to the process used by the Model for Improvement, which is an EBP (evidence-based practice) model. PDSA stands for: Plan-Do-Study-Act process.
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