Table 2.
Correlation Between Performance Improvement Activity Tasks and Self-Reported Quality Improvement Preparedness Among Graduating Family Medicine Residents in 2017 (N = 3152)
| Performance Improvement Activity Task | Moderately Prepared (N = 1756) | Extremely Prepared (N = 582) | P Value | Unadjusted Odds Ratio | 95% CI |
| Quality improvement team leadership | 440 (25.1%) | 228 (39.2%) | < .001 | 1.93 | 1.58–2.35 |
| Completion of written summary of project for academic presentation or paper | 279 (15.9%) | 142 (24.4%) | < .001 | 1.71 | 1.36–2.15 |
| Data abstraction | 796 (45.3%) | 330 (56.7%) | < .001 | 1.58 | 1.31–1.91 |
| Identification of quality measure/topic for improvement | 1276 (72.7%) | 461 (79.2%) | .002 | 1.43 | 1.14–1.80 |
| Identification of quality improvement intervention | 1092 (62.2%) | 408 (70.1%) | .001 | 1.43 | 1.17–1.74 |
| Quality improvement team participation (shared decision-making of project) | 710 (40.4%) | 281 (48.3%) | < .001 | 1.38 | 1.14–1.66 |
| Data entry | 1080 (61.5%) | 397 (68.2%) | .004 | 1.34 | 1.10–1.64 |
| Implementing chosen quality improvement intervention | 1261 (71.8%) | 444 (76.3%) | .035 | 1.26 | 1.02–1.57 |