QI Tools

Materials

Quality Improvement Consultation Protocol

Quality Improvement

This protocol will walk you through the steps outlined on the HPVIQ website for preparing, delivering, following-up, and evaluating your Assessment and Feedback quality improvement (QI) session.

Consultation Slides

Quality Improvement

Use these slides to structure an HPV vaccine focused QI session.

Immunization Report Card

Using Data

This report card can be completed on-line with clinic specific information then printed or saved for use in HPV vaccine QI projects. Use it to deliver immunization information to clinics involved in the project.

Action Plan

Partner

Use this with clinics to choose QI strategies and structure your conversation.

Email Coaching Messages

Quality Improvement

Use these email templates to contact clinics after your QI session is complete and send them follow-up information about HPV vaccination, including 3- and 6- month Report Cards.

Clinic Tracking Spreadsheet

Quality Improvement

Use this spreadsheet to record which clinics are participating in your QI efforts, when you contacted them, and when you need to take the next step.

Clinic vaccination role map

This worksheet helps map who has a role in each step of the vaccination process so that you can see who should be involved in the QI process. You can also use it to determine what other resources might be needed.

The Announcement Approach for Increasing HPV Vaccination

Communication Training

Use this flyer in clinics to encourage providers to use the Announcement Approach when making HPV vaccine recommendations.

IQIP Slides

Quality Improvement

The coordinator for the IQIP program can use these slides to train IQIP consultants to support strong provider recommendations for HPV vaccination.

Guide to partnering with healthcare systems

Quality Improvement

Learn key strategies for how immunization programs and other QI partners can effectively partner with healthcare systems to increase HPV vaccination.

Evaluation Instruments

Pre-visit Survey

Quality Improvement

Use this survey to evaluate providers beliefs and practices about HPV vaccination before your quality improvement (QI) consultation.

Post-visit Survey

Quality Improvement

Use this survey to measure providers beliefs and practices about HPV vaccination right after your QI consultation and compare the results with the Pre-visit Survey. You can also use this survey to evaluate your CME activity if you certified your session for CME credits.

Six-month Follow-up Survey

Quality Improvement

Use this survey to see how your QI efforts impacted providers’ beliefs and practices over time.

Data Collection Spreadsheet

Quality Improvement

Use this to record clinics’ immunization rates throughout the length of your QI efforts.

Publications

Coaching primary care clinics for HPV vaccination quality improvement: Comparing in-person and webinar implementation

Quality Improvement

Calo, W.A., Gilkey, M.B., Leeman, J., MacKinnon, J., Averette, C., Sanchez S., Kornides, M.L., Brewer, N.T. Coaching primary care clinics for HPV vaccination quality improvement: Comparing in-person and webinar implementation. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 2019, 9:1.

Comparing in-person and webinar delivery of an immunization quality improvement program: a process evaluation of the adolescent AFIX trial

Quality Improvement

Gilkey, M.B., Moss, J.L., Roberts, A.J., Dayton, A.M., Grimshaw, A.H., Brewer, N.T. Comparing in-person and webinar delivery of an immunization quality improvement program: A process evaluation of the adolescent AFIX trial. Implementation Science, 2014, 9:21.

Increasing provision of adolescent vaccines in primary care: A randomized controlled trial

Quality Improvement

Gilkey, M.B., Dayton, A.M., Moss, J.L., Sparks, A.C., Grimshaw, A.H., Bowling, J.M., Brewer, N.T. Increasing provision of adolescent vaccines in primary care: A randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics, 2014, 134:2, e346-e353.

U.S. Primary Care Clinics’ Experiences During Introduction of the 9-Valent HPV Vaccine

Quality Improvement

Kornides, M.L, Calo, W.A., Heisler-MacKinnon, J.A., Gilkey, M.B. U.S. Primary Care Clinics’ Experiences During Introduction of the 9-Valent HPV Vaccine. J Community Health, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0420-x

Publications

Coaching primary care clinics for HPV vaccination quality improvement: Comparing in-person and webinar implementation

Quality Improvement

Calo, W.A., Gilkey, M.B., Leeman, J., MacKinnon, J., Averette, C., Sanchez S., Kornides, M.L., Brewer, N.T. Coaching primary care clinics for HPV vaccination quality improvement: Comparing in-person and webinar implementation. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 2019, 9:1.

Comparing in-person and webinar delivery of an immunization quality improvement program: a process evaluation of the adolescent AFIX trial

Quality Improvement

Gilkey, M.B., Moss, J.L., Roberts, A.J., Dayton, A.M., Grimshaw, A.H., Brewer, N.T. Comparing in-person and webinar delivery of an immunization quality improvement program: A process evaluation of the adolescent AFIX trial. Implementation Science, 2014, 9:21.

Increasing provision of adolescent vaccines in primary care: A randomized controlled trial

Quality Improvement

Gilkey, M.B., Dayton, A.M., Moss, J.L., Sparks, A.C., Grimshaw, A.H., Bowling, J.M., Brewer, N.T. Increasing provision of adolescent vaccines in primary care: A randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics, 2014, 134:2, e346-e353.

U.S. Primary Care Clinics’ Experiences During Introduction of the 9-Valent HPV Vaccine

Quality Improvement

Kornides, M.L, Calo, W.A., Heisler-MacKinnon, J.A., Gilkey, M.B. U.S. Primary Care Clinics’ Experiences During Introduction of the 9-Valent HPV Vaccine. J Community Health, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0420-x

Quality Improvement Coaching for Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Coverage: A process Evaluation in 3 States, 2018-2019

Quality Improvement

Leeman J, Petermann V, Heisler-MacKinnon J, Bjork A, Brewer N.T., Grabert B.K., Gilkey M.B.; Prev Chronic Dis. 2020;17:E120.