Which tool helps identify gaps between current practice and new guidelines?

• A. Gap analysis
• B. Flowchart
• C. Run chart
• D. Histogram

Answer: (A)

Identifying gaps between current practice and new guidelines is about comparing what you’re actually doing now with what the guidelines require, so you can see where changes are needed. This approach systematically defines the new standards, maps existing workflows, and highlights differences, which helps you prioritize improvements, allocate resources, and plan targeted training, policy updates, and process changes to meet the guidelines. The other tools serve different purposes: a flowchart shows the steps in a process, a run chart tracks performance data over time to spot trends, and a histogram displays how often outcomes occur within ranges. None of those directly reveals the specific gaps between current practice and the new guidelines in a structured way the way gap analysis does.