… For the purposes of this review, quality improvement in healthcare is defined as ‘better
patient experience and outcomes achieved through changing provider behaviour and …

… Spreading and sustaining quality improvement (QI) initiatives in healthcare is a recognised
… for whom context impacts during the improvement journey across healthcare system levels. …

… to the sustainability of healthcare quality improvement (QI) initiatives. … quality improvement
course that would enable us to really take the tools that we’ve taken to people in healthcare to …

… of quality improvement initiatives in healthcare operational environments. In the process,
environmental changes and strategic responses are examined for a sample of healthcare …

… Pay-for-performance initiatives, 30 accreditation standards for health care systems, 31 and
… engage in QI initiatives. Front-line health care professionals will be most effective in optimally …

… This study supports recommendations by observers of health care quality that hospital boards
and senior executives need to be more engaged in risk identification and mitigation, must …

… of this article is to describe how the training of healthcare professionals in improvement
work can be performed, and evaluate potential changes in attitude as a result of the initiative. …

… of quality improvement collaboratives, … the quality improvement collaborative was responsible
for the effect. The authors go on to state, “To understand how and why quality improvement …

… are routinely reviewed by a variety of mechanisms at hospitals and health systems actively
engaged in QI initiatives. What we do not know is whether and to what extent an ethical …

… The use of quality improvement (QI) methods in healthcare is now widespread. Some QI
initiatives have documented significant improvements in processes or patient outcomes,1 some …