Designing Effective Healthcare Quality Improvement Training Programs
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nursing leaders reported gains in quality improvement knowledge and the use of quality improvement tools after attending training programs.
Advancing the science of continuous quality improvement (CQI) addresses a core question within health care environments: "How will we know that change is an improvement?"
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Transforming Care at the Bedside (Phase 2)
December 1, 2012 | Report
This evaluation was of a program that sought to test the impact of rapid-cycle improvement efforts championed and carried out primarily by nurses on the quality of care in hospital medical/surgical units.
Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks
December 1, 2012 | Report
This evaluation was of a program that sought to incorporate effective health behavior counseling into routine primary care.
Improving Chronic Illness Care
December 1, 2012 | Report
This evaluation was of a program designed to test the effectiveness of the use of learning collaboratives and the Chronic Care Model in improving health care organizations’ ability to improve the health of patients with chronic illness.
Diabetes Initiative
December 1, 2012 | Report
This program was a 30-month, multi-site initiative to improve diabetes self-management and to determine whether self-management principles could be implemented effectively in real-world settings.
Improving Research and Evaluation Around Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care
November 30, 2012 | Report
This report discusses the challenges of evaluating continuous quality improvement, recommendations to address these challenges, and existing gaps in the research.
Exposing the Flaws in a Common Quality Metric
June 25, 2012 | Story
Michael D. Howell, MD, MPH, and colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center studied the reliability of a common quality improvement metric, falls per 1,000 patient-days, and found that flaws in the metric could lead to erroneous conclusions.
A Framework for Identifying, Classifying, and Evaluating Continuous Quality Improvement Studies
June 25, 2012 | Story
Lisa V. Rubenstein, MD, MSPH, and colleagues at RAND Corporation developed evidence-based methods to identify and apply relevant quality criteria to published articles that empirically evaluate literature on continuous quality improvement.
Identifying Contextual Factors that Impact Quality Improvement Projects and Their Likelihood of Success
June 25, 2012 | Story
Heather C. Kaplan, MD, and colleagues at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center developed a framework for optimizing contextual factors in quality improvement and tested it in 86 quality improvement projects in three different settings.
Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation
June 25, 2012 | Program Result
Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation funded nine teams of researchers to address a core question within health care environments: "How will we know that change is an improvement?"