Improvement Science in Anaesthesia. [PDF]
Curr Anesthesiol Rep, 2017 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This article offers an overview of the history and features of Improvement Science in general and some of its applications to Anaesthesia in particular.
Wagstaff DT, Bedford J, Moonesinghe SR.
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Navigating paradox in child welfare: implications for improvement science in complex human service systems [PDF]
Frontiers in Health ServicesIntroductionImprovement science emphasizes the need to understand and enhance quality in complex service systems. While the field primarily has developed within healthcare, its expansion into social care requires deeper engagement with how quality is ...
Christina Evaldsson +2 more
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What is improvement science, and what makes it different? An outline of the field and its frontiers [PDF]
Frontiers in Health ServicesImprovement science has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of enquiry to provide methodological and scientific rigour to the practice and study of improvements in healthcare, and with contributions from a wide range of stakeholders and perspectives ...
Julie E. Reed +17 more
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Teaching improvement science to paramedicine students: protocol for a systematic scoping review [PDF]
Systematic Reviews, 2018 Background It is now more important than ever to equip paramedic students, the likely future managers and leaders of ambulance services, with the knowledge and skills of improvement science.
Robin Pap +4 more
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Integrating theory and practice: the core components guide for rigorous quality improvement design [PDF]
Frontiers in Health ServicesQuality improvement (QI) methods have been used extensively to support the delivery of safe, timely, effective, equitable, and cost-effective health care.
Paul Howard +9 more
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It’s Time to Make More Room for Program Evaluation in the Education Doctorate Program
Impacting Education, 2023 This essay highlights the value of an applied methodology course in program evaluation in the education doctorate program by exploring several benefits that it offers to enhance a doctoral student’s ability to solve complex problems of practice ...
Jessica A. Marotta
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Preparing Scholarly Practitioners to Use Improvement Science
Impacting Education, 2023 While doctoral leadership programs have widely adopted Improvement Science (IS) as a signature pedagogy, few studies have examined how to best equip doctoral students with the knowledge and research skills they need to utilize IS in practice.
Noelle A. Paufler
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Developing Leadership for Improvement
Impacting Education, 2023 Improvement and action-oriented research approaches make iterative testing to learn about systems and adaptive change a central practice. As the need to develop the field’s capacity to improve grows, so does the need to develop leaders’ capacity for ...
Maritza Lozano +2 more
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Improving science through improved acknowledgment of reviewers [PDF]
Conservation Biology, 2014 Quantifying and attributing credit for the production of new knowledge is an increasingly pervasive aspect of scientific culture (Tscharntke et al. 2007; Fischer et al. 2012). Individual researchers are under sustained pressure from research institutions to continually increase the number of peer-reviewed scientific publications they produce to justify
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Single-Case Design: A Promising Tool for Improvement Science
Impacting Education, 2022 This article provides an overview of single-case research design and how it can be used in concert with Improvement Science. Hypothetical examples of using single-case design to inform improvement efforts are provided, as is a discussion of connections ...
John McKenna
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