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- Title
Evidence-based quality improvement: the state of the science.
- Authors
Shojania, Kaveh G; Grimshaw, Jeremy M
- Abstract
Routine practice fails to incorporate research evidence in a timely and reliable fashion. Many quality improvement (QI) efforts aim to close these gaps between clinical research and practice. However, in sharp contrast to the paradigm of evidence-based medicine, these efforts often proceed on the basis of intuition and anecdotal accounts of successful strategies for changing provider behavior or achieving organizational change. We review problems with current approaches to QI research and outline the steps required to make QI efforts based as much on evidence as the practices they seek to implement.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2005, Vol 24, Issue 1, p138
- ISSN
0278-2715
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.24.1.138