TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving the quality of quality improvement projects
AU - Berenholtz, Sean M.
AU - Needham, Dale M.
AU - Lubomski, Lisa H.
AU - Goeschel, Christine A.
AU - Pronovost, Peter J.
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - As the stakes grow for evaluating the quality of health care delivery, so too should greater attention be paid to the integrity of the design, conduct, and inferences made from QI projects. QI projects that seek to make inferences, especially public inferences, about the impact of an intervention to improve quality of care should be rigorously designed and evaluated, and limitations and potential biases transparently reported to understand how they may affect the conclusions suggested by the project. Our patients deserve nothing less.
AB - As the stakes grow for evaluating the quality of health care delivery, so too should greater attention be paid to the integrity of the design, conduct, and inferences made from QI projects. QI projects that seek to make inferences, especially public inferences, about the impact of an intervention to improve quality of care should be rigorously designed and evaluated, and limitations and potential biases transparently reported to understand how they may affect the conclusions suggested by the project. Our patients deserve nothing less.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1553-7250(10)36069-7
DO - 10.1016/S1553-7250(10)36069-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 21548508
AN - SCOPUS:78651232718
SN - 1553-7250
VL - 36
SP - 468
EP - 473
JO - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
JF - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
IS - 10
ER -