Reporting and publishing quality improvement projects

The SQUIRE (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) guidelines for quality improvement reporting: explanation and elaboration

As the science of quality improvement in health care advances, the importance of sharing its accomplishments through the published literature increases. Current reporting of improvement work in health care varies widely in both content and quality. It is against this backdrop that a group of stakeholders from a variety of disciplines has created the Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting E...

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...

How quality improvement projects influence organizational culture.

Developing and executing quality improvement projects (concept, methods, and evaluation).

Continuous quality improvement, quality assurance, cycles of change--these words of often used to express the process of using data to inform and improve clinical care. Although many of us have been exposed to theories and practice of experimental work (e.g., randomized trial), few of us have been similarly exposed to the science underlying quality improvement. Through the lens of a single-cent...

Publishing Quality Improvement Work in Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology

Make QI nature of study clear Objective clearly stated Brief details of setting, methodology, problem, and findings Brief description of methods, results, and