Driver diagram — reduce 30-day readmissions
An IHI driver diagram that traces a quality-improvement aim left to right through its primary drivers and the concrete change ideas meant to move them.
For the quality-improvement lead
What this shows
A driver diagram — the planning artifact from the IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) model for improvement. It reads left to right as a tidy tree: the aim ("reduce 30-day readmissions") on the far left, the primary drivers that move it ("reliable discharge process", "timely follow-up") in the next column, and the concrete change ideas — teach-back at the bedside, medication reconciliation, an appointment within 7 days — branching out to the right.
The value is the line of sight it forces. Every change idea on the right traces back through a driver to the aim, so a team can defend why each intervention is on the board and spot which drivers still have no ideas attached. It is the ordinary # / ## / - mindmap input, rendered as an aim → drivers → change-ideas tree by adding %% style: driver.