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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.

Linkages between Nursing and the Quality of Patient Care

April 1, 2013 | Journal Article

An expansive body of literature reflects the state of the science—and the increased importance of INQRI’s goal to measure and enhance nursing’s contribution to the quality of patient care.

Facilitators and Challenges to Conducting Interdisciplinary Research

April 1, 2013 | Journal Article

Interdisciplinary research teams create synergies to solve problems and improve health care.

Assessing Quality Improvement in Health Care

March 1, 2013 | Journal Article

Gaps in the role of theory to enhance the practice of QI research are explored in this research.

A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

August 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This article describes work to conduct systematic reviews of the literature, evaluate promising practices, provide technical assistance to health care organizations and disseminate their findings.

Comparative Effectiveness Research

October 8, 2010 | Issue Brief

A broad effort is under way to understand what really works in health care, perhaps leading to better value for dollars spent.

The Instruction Manual for Designing Health Care Delivery in Battle Creek, Mich.

September 12, 2011 | Program Result

In Battle Creek, Mich., a health care system implements the Chronic Care Model throughout the community.

Aligning Forces for Quality: Snapshots of Success

October 28, 2009 | Issue Brief

Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) tests innovative strategies for improving health care at the community level. These snapshots of success highlight one activity from each of the original 14 AF4Q communities and outline the steps involved, lessons learned and results of the activity.

Measuring Health Care Access and Quality to Improve Health in Populations

July 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Poor health status, rapidly escalating health care costs and seemingly little association between investments in health care and health outcomes have prompted a call for a “pay-for-performance” system to improve population health. The authors of this study suggest that both health plans and clinical service providers measure and report the rates of five behaviors.

The Published Literature on Handoffs in Hospitals

December 1, 2010 | Journal Article

A review of existing research on handoffs in order to inform the improvement and standardization of the handoff process in hospitals found that in existing literature, key concepts remain poorly defined and that patient safety is not analyzed against handoffs' other functions.

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