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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 Services
Improvement 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, Julie E. Reed, Grazia Antonacci, Natalie Armstrong, G. Ross Baker, Sonya Crowe, Karin Pukk Harenstam, Dougal Hargreaves, Yogini H. Jani, Yogini H. Jani, Lloyd Provost, Martin Rejler, Martin Rejler, Carl Savage, Johan Thor, Johan Thor, Sharon Williams, Thomas Woodcock   +17 more
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Navigating paradox in child welfare: implications for improvement science in complex human service systems [PDF]

Frontiers in Health Services
IntroductionImprovement 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, Christina Evaldsson, Sofia Kjellström   +2 more
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Improvement Science in Anaesthesia. [PDF]

Curr Anesthesiol Rep, 2017
This article offers an overview of the history and features of Improvement Science in general and some of its applications to Anaesthesia in particular.Improvement Science is an evolving discipline aiming to generate learning from quality improvement interventions.
Wagstaff DT, Bedford J, Moonesinghe SR.
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Complexity of healthcare improvement – a comparative analysis of frameworks for improvement science [PDF]

Frontiers in Health Services
This study aims to critically compare and analyze relevant frameworks used in improvement science in order to examine how they address complexity as well as the contextual, social, and relational mechanisms that shape healthcare improvement.
Caroline Ärleskog, Caroline Ärleskog, Klas Gäre, Ann-Christine Andersson, Ann-Christine Andersson, Mattias Elg, Mattias Elg, Andreas Gremyr, Andreas Gremyr, Andreas Gremyr, Christina Petersson, Christina Petersson, Christina Petersson, Boel Andersson Gäre, Boel Andersson Gäre   +14 more
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The foundations of quality improvement science. [PDF]

Future Hosp J, 2016
As an alternative to 'big bang' initiatives, plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycles are an increasingly popular approach to conducting tests of change to support quality improvement in healthcare. Using PDSA cycles can help clinicians deliver improvements in patient care through a structured experimental approach to learning and tests of change.
Reed JE, Davey N, Woodcock T.
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Improvement science as the engine for the next generation of learning health networks [PDF]

Frontiers in Health Services
While the evidence-based care movement has traditionally relied on randomized controlled trials (RCTs), these methods often lack the flexibility and external validity required for complex, real-world clinical settings.
Gareth J. Parry, Gareth J. Parry, Lloyd Provost, Peter Margolis   +3 more
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Working to enhance HIV care: integrating implementation science and improvement science for effective quality improvement – a scoping review [PDF]

BMJ Open Quality
Objective Healthcare systems struggle to balance the need for frontline problem-solving with the requirement for theory-driven strategies that ensure sustainable system-wide improvement. Implementation science, improvement science and quality improvement
Thomas O’Grady, Michelle Pendill, Clemens Steinbock, Megan Urry, Tarik Itum, Riahana Rahman   +5 more
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Framework for Implementing Improvement Science in a School District to Support Institutionalized Improvement

Education Sciences
This paper presents a framework for implementing improvement science in a district or educational organization. Findings from interviews with 17 experienced educational improvers indicate critical elements for a school district to effectively support and
Erin Anderson, Katheleen M. W. Cunningham, Jayson W. Richardson   +2 more
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Promotion of improvement as a science [PDF]

The Lancet, 2013
The remarkable achievements of modern health care make the defi ciencies associated with delivery of care all the more noticeable. Health care is a major source of avoidable harm, and patients are routinely exposed to wide and inexplicable variations in the quality of care that they receive. These variations are very diffi cult to address, despite good
Marshall, M, Pronovost, P, Dixon-Woods, M   +2 more
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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, Leyda W. Garcia, Carlos Sandoval   +2 more
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