RT Book, Section
A1 Schnipper, Jeffrey L.
A2 McKean, Sylvia C.
A2 Ross, John J.
A2 Dressler, Daniel D.
A2 Brotman, Daniel J.
A2 Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
SR Print(0)
ID 56191865
T1 Chapter 13. Quality Improvement and Safety Research
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-160389-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56191865
RD 2024/09/14
AB Hospitalists  are  often  asked  to  participate  in  or  lead  quality  improvement  (QI)  initiatives,  locally  and  nationally.  Because  data  collection  and  feedback  are  part  of  any  QI  effort  (see  Chapter  12),  and  because  the  results  of  these  efforts  are  often  published,  the  hospitalists  who  lead  these  efforts  often  ask  (or  are  asked  by  others)  the  question:  “Is  this  research?”  The  short  answer  is  that  QI  research  is  different  from  standard  QI  efforts  in  many  respects.  In  this  chapter,  we  will  address  the  differences  between  standard  QI  efforts  and  QI  research,  some  reasons  to  do  QI  research,  the  appropriate  time  to  do  QI  research  (for  you  and  for  the  scientific  question  at  hand),  how  “rigorously”  to  conduct  QI  research,  getting  started  with  the  process,  the  ingredients  for  a  successful  project,  and  issues  related  to  study  design  and  methods  that  are  either  unique  to  or  are  particularly  relevant  to  QI  research.