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A collection of success stories on quality improvement from the front lines of American health care, providing free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care.
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Americans receive only about half of the recommended care they should receive. Adopting quality improvement strategies, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, and changing how care is delivered at the local level can improve the care all Americans receive.
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National Committee for Quality Assurance
Grantee
NCQA, with a grant from Pioneer, will evaluate a new measurement tool that focuses on improving the health outcomes of patients with heart disease and diabetes.
Dissemination and Implementation: INQRI's Potential Impact
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Read the perspectives of principal investigators from INQRI-funded implementation sites: strategies, challenges, successes, and lessons learned.
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.
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.
Measuring Nurses' Impact on Health Care Quality
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Four Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) teams summarize their work to close the gaps in measuring quality of nursing 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.
A Multicenter, Phased, Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections in Intensive Care Units
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The success of this nurse-led collaborative underscores the role of nurses in quality improvement.
Introducing a New Way to Measure Health Care Quality
April 18, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
With support from Pioneer, NCQA and Archimedes, Inc., will develop and test the Global Cardiovascular Risk (GCVR) score over the coming months.
NCQA To Test Pioneering Way to Measure Quality, Foster Wider Use of Prevention Strategies
April 9, 2013 | News Release
NCQA and RWJF announced a new approach to measuring quality that will provide a more sensitive gauge of risk factors and make it possible to create clinically meaningful incentives for providers to improve disease prevention.