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Quality improvement into practice [PDF]

BMJ, 2020
### What you need to know The benefits to front line clinicians of participating in quality improvement (QI) activity are promoted in many health systems. QI can represent a valuable opportunity for individuals to be involved in leading and delivering change, from improving individual patient care to transforming services across complex health and ...
Adam Backhouse, Fatai Ogunlayi
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Does quality improvement improve quality? [PDF]

Future Hospital Journal, 2016
Although quality improvement (QI) is frequently advocated as a way of addressing the problems with healthcare, evidence of its effectiveness has remained very mixed. The reasons for this are varied but the growing literature highlights particular challenges. Fidelity in the application of QI methods is often variable.
Dixon-Woods, Mary, Martin, Graham P
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Quality Improvement for Quality Improvement Studies [PDF]

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2018
At JAMA Internal Medicine, we receive many manuscripts describing studies designed to improve health care quality, safety, or value. We applaud these efforts, as we strongly believe that changes in health care delivery and process should be driven by ...
Deborah Grady, Patrick G. O’Malley, Rita F. Redberg   +2 more
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Continuous quality improvement program and its results of Korean Society for Cytopathology [PDF]

Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine, 2020
Background Since 1995, the Korean Society for Cytopathology has overseen the Continuous Quality Improvement program for cytopathology laboratories. The Committee of Quality Improvement has carried out an annual survey of cytology data for each laboratory
Yoo-Duk Choi, Hoon-Kyu Oh, Su-Jin Kim, Kyung-Hee Kim, Yun-Kyung Lee, Bo-Sung Kim, Eun-Jeong Jang, Yoon-Jung Choi, Eun-Kyung Han, Dong-Hoon Kim, Younghee Choi, Chan-Kwon Jung, Sung-Nam Kim, Kyueng-Whan Min, Seok-Jin Yoon, Hun-Kyung Lee, Kyung Un Choi, Hye Kyoung Yoon   +17 more
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Application of CRISPR/Cas9 in Crop Quality Improvement

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
The various crop species are major agricultural products and play an indispensable role in sustaining human life. Over a long period, breeders strove to increase crop yield and improve quality through traditional breeding strategies. Today, many breeders
Qier Liu, Fan Yang, Jingjuan Zhang, Hang Liu, S. Rahman, S. Islam, Wujun Ma, Maoyun She   +7 more
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A hierarchy of needs for remote undergraduate medical education: lessons from the medical student experience

BMC Medical Education, 2022
Purpose The disruption of undergraduate medical education (UME) by the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked rapid, real-time adjustments by medical educators and students.
Henrike C. Besche, Sarah Onorato, Stephen Pelletier, Sepideh Ashrafzadeh, Ashwini Joshi, Brenna Nelsen, Jaewon Yoon, Joyce Zhou, Andrea Schwartz, Barbara A. Cockrill   +9 more
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Driving communication forward: improving communication for palliative care patients around driving and opioids – a quality improvement report

BMJ Open Quality, 2023
Introduction The number of people requiring palliative care is increasing with an ageing comorbid population. Pain is a prevalent symptom for palliative care patients and is often managed with opioids.
Nicola Davey, Rebecca Allan, Seline Ismail-Callaghan, Megan Howarth, Stephanie Amanda Meddick-Dyson   +4 more
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Defaulting peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) orders to single lumen: A quality improvement initiative at a Midwestern academic center 2022–2023

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Defaulting the order for peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) placement to single lumen increased proportion of single-lumen insertions over total insertions from 42/126 (33%) to 57/104 (51)%. Single-lumen PICCs had a nonsignificant lower rate
Kathryn Trautman, Takaaki Kobayashi, Chad McPherson, Karen Brust   +3 more
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Development of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC)

Annals of Surgery Open, 2023
Introduction:. In 2014, 56 Illinois hospitals came together to form a unique learning collaborative, the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC).
Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS, Michael F. McGee, MD, Mark V. Williams, MD, Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD, Amy L. Halverson, MD, Kevin J. O’Leary, MD, Paula Farrell, BSN, Juliana Thomas, MPH, Remi Love, MA, Lindsey Kreutzer, MPH, Allison R. Dahlke, MPH, Brianna D’Orazio, MPH, Steven Reinhart, MBA, Katelyn Dienes, MS, Mark Schumacher, MS, Ying Shan, MS, Christopher Quinn, MS, Vivek N. Prachand, MD, Susan Sullivan, BS, Kimberly A. Cradock, MD, Kelsi Boyd, RN, BSN, William Hopkinson, MD, Colleen Fairman, RN,, David Odell, MD, MS, Jonah J. Stulberg, MD, PhD, MPH, Cindy Barnard, MBA, Jane Holl, MD, MPH, Ryan P. Merkow, MD, MS, Anthony D. Yang, MD, on behalf of the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative   +29 more
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Classification, Processing Procedures, and Market Demand of Chinese Biscuits and the Breeding of Special Wheat for Biscuit Making

Journal of Food Quality, 2022
With the improvement of living standards, consumers’ demand for wheat food is gradually diversified. Biscuit, as a kind of convenience food, becomes a consumer’s leisure snack due to its characteristics such as low processing cost, easy-to-carry and ...
Xin Hu, Lejia Hu, Jing Zheng, Junkang Rong   +3 more
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