Research and quality improvement projects using electronic clinical information need to consider sustainability to “ensure their long-term success,” according to a study in Generating Evidence and ...

A key step for researchers developing a human subjects research study is submission of a protocol to the Internal Review Board (IRB). However, quality assurance/quality improvement (QA/QI) projects do ...

An evaluation of 50 surgical QI projects found that only one scored above 70% on criteria for a well-conducted effort, with major deficits in the critical early "front-end" planning stage. The new ...

Participants described significant challenges with team functionality, but a majority of the QI projects made progress toward achieving their aim statement goals. A review of completed projects shows ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

Quality improvement (QI) programs have rapidly grown in health care over recent years. Despite increasing evidence of successful QI initiatives resulting in improved outcomes, the adoption and ...

Defining and evaluating potentially preventable ED visits in oncology patients including using early machine learning models. Response time of high impact factor medical journals versus an ...

Established in 2024, the Quality Improvement Pathway organizes current offerings in Quality Improvement (QI) across four years of medical school to channel the enthusiasm of students to become ...