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Quality and Safety in Health Care 2006;15:150-151; doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.017103
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COMMENTARY

QI research and evidence based health care

Strengthening the contribution of quality improvement research to evidence based health care

G R Baker

Correspondence to:
G Ross Baker PhD
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 3M6; ross.baker@utoronto.ca

Better reporting of quality improvement efforts could assist in the design of effectiveness research

Keywords: quality improvement; evidence; guidelines; research methods

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The suggestions by Davidoff and Batalden1 for strengthening reports on quality improvement offer useful guidance for those wishing to publish such work. Their rationale for providing this guidance stems from their perception that the failure to provide better information about local improvement efforts slows the spread of successful changes, limits the scrutiny of quality improvement work, and reduces the incentives to participate in such efforts. They are not the first to lament the variable quality of such reports on improvement. Yet Davidoff and Batalden focus primarily on the impact of enhancements in the reporting of quality improvement efforts on quality improvement practice. These efforts will also have an important impact on quality improvement research. And the benefits between research and practice are likely to be synergistic.


GOALS OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT RESEARCH
More thorough reporting of quality improvement is a first step toward greater academic respectability for these efforts. . . . [Full text of this article]


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