To change a particular quality of care outcome within a system, quality improvement
initiatives must first understand the causes contributing to the outcome. After the causes of a …

To achieve sustainable change, quality improvement initiatives must become the new way of
working rather than something added on to routine clinical care. However, most …

Quality improvement involves a combined effort among health care staff and stakeholders to
diagnose and treat problems in the health care system. However, health care professionals …

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) uptake around the globe has steadily increased over the last
several decades as a viable alternative to haemodialysis. Continued success of this …

Health equity has been described as the opportunity for all persons to obtain their highest
level of health possible. 1 Unfortunately, even with advances in technology and care …

Background and objectives Patients with decompensated cirrhosis rarely receive palliative
and supportive care interventions, which are routine in other life-limiting diseases. We aimed …

Background: Many patients with kidney failure will live longer and healthier lives if they
receive a kidney transplant rather than dialysis. However, multiple barriers prevent patients …

Background As quality improvement (QI) programmes have become progressively larger
scale, the risks of implementation having unintended consequences are increasingly …

Objective To describe the organization of the Epilepsy Learning Healthcare System (ELHS),
a network that aims to improve care outcomes for people with epilepsy (PWE). Materials and …

Results We reviewed 15 patient-level randomized trials (n= 3298 patients), and six cluster-
randomized trials (n= 30,042 patients). Quality improvement strategies reduced dialysis …