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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.
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.
November 1, 2012 | Report
This overview outlines three recommendations and the framework RWJF and the Aligning Forces national program office (NPO) developed to address how RWJF can best refine the AF4Q program for its final phase.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The formative observations we present in this article, and the associated recommendations, are based on analysis of longitudinal evaluation data to date, including results from multiple surveys, qualitative analysis of key informant interviews, revi ...
February 4, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A free virtual meeting will present the results of five quality improvement programs that received RWJF grants.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article provides a description of the research design, data, and limitations of the independent evaluation of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative.
October 3, 2012 | News Release
New study indicates nurses' assessments of care accurately reflect hospital quality.
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.
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.
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.