12/08/2025
In November, we hosted our QI Collaborative team members for a webinar to recap the great work done by all the QI teams. Dr. Heather Kaplan, VON faculty member, outlined an old-fashioned "Top 10 List" to show all the great learnings from the year. Over the next few weeks, we will highlight these measurement lessons.
Coming in at #6: Rational subgrouping - the only time breaking things into smaller groups actually helps your sanity :)
⭐Rational subgrouping organizes data in a way that makes each subgroup as similar as possible-and meaningfully different from other groups-so signals of change are easier to detect in practice this might mean grouping data by factors such as race, location, diagnosis, or even shift depending on what influences the process.
For example, a team improving skin-to-skin care saw overall rates rising but when they sub-grouped by gestational age using an SPC chart, they discovered meaningful differences in the time to skin to skin. Organizing data thoughtfully helps teams uncover these patterns and reveal opportunities that averages alone can hide.
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