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Essential Reading
- How to Improve the Quality of Healthcare DeliveryBMJ & The Health Foundation series of papers on improving healthcare quality.
Podcasts & Learning
- Making the DifferenceIn these podcasts, Harriet Vickers talks to doctors and other healthcare professionals about how they’ve gone about improving care for their patients, and explores the ideas and techniques behind making change happen
- Quality Improvement in HealthcareAudioDigest--free to Inova clinicians. Registration required
- Principles of Quality Improvement for Your PracticeAudioDigest--free to Inova clinicians. Registration required
- PSQH: The Podcasta bi-weekly podcast covering the hottest topics in patient safety and quality
SQUIRE Guidelines for Quality Improvement
- SQUIRE 2.0 GuidelinesSQUIRE stands for Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence. The SQUIRE guidelines provide a framework for reporting new knowledge about how to improve healthcare. They are intended for reports that describe system level work to improve the quality, safety, and value of healthcare.
- Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) guidelines, v 2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literatureGoodman, Ogrinc, Davies, et al. 2016. BMJ Quality & Safety.
- The SQUIRE guidelines: a scholarly approach to quality improvementMcQuillan & Wong (2016). Journal of Graduate Medical Education.
QI Project Guides & Templates
- Quality Improvement Project GuideBMJ's step-by-step guide through a quality improvement project.
- Engaging Learners Through Modules in Quality Improvement and Patient Safetyopen-access curriculum + teaching materials
- GIQuICdata repository, benchmarking
- SCCM: LearnICU Quality & Safety Educationavailable to SCCM Members
- SHM QI 101Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM’s) Quality 101 showcases 8 important points critical to the success of quality improvement in the hospital.