How to Incorporate Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Projects in Your Training

How quality improvement projects influence organizational culture.

How to Write Up Your Quality Improvement Initiatives for Publication.

T he Journal of Graduate Medical Education often receives submissions from trainees and educators highlighting work they do in quality improvement (QI). This is remarkably encouraging given the emphasis that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Next Accreditation System has placed on integrating QI into the clinical learning environment. A major challenge for editors...

Patient safety culture measurement and improvement: a "how to" guide.

is widely accepted that the desired improvements in patient safety require a change in the culture within healthcare (CPSI 2004; IOM 2000; NPSA 2004). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “To Err Is Human” concluded that “the status quo is no longer acceptable ... Health care organizations must develop a culture of safety” (IOM 2000: 14). In the UK, building a safety culture is the first step...

Reporting on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education: Designing Projects for Optimal Dissemination.

I have had the opportunity to review numerous manuscripts reporting on efforts to teach patient safety and quality improvement (PS/QI) to others, initially as a reviewer, and now as an associate editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. The most likely reason that I have been asked to review many of these papers is that I published a systematic literature review in 2010 that summari...

Section VI: Tools for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Chapter 44. Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety