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F Davidoff, P Batalden, D Stevens, G Ogrinc, S Mooney, and for the SQUIRE development group
- Publication guidelines for quality improvement in health care: evolution of the SQUIRE project
Qual. Saf. Health Care 17: i3-9i.
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Publication guidelines for quality improvement in health care: evolution of the SQUIRE project
1 Institute for Healthcare Improvement, New Hampshire, USA
2 Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Center for Leadership and Improvement, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
New Hampshire, USA
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Dr F Davidoff, 143 Garden Street, Wethersfield, CT 06109, USA; fdavidoff{at}cox.net
In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studiesof quality improvement interventions as the initial step ina consensus process for development of a more definitive version.This article contains the full revised version of the guidelines,which the authors refer to as SQUIRE (Standards for QUalityImprovement Reporting Excellence). This paper also describesthe consensus process, which included informal feedback fromauthors, editors and peer reviewers who used the guidelines;formal written commentaries; input from a group of publicationguideline developers; ongoing review of the literature on theepistemology of improvement and methods for evaluating complexsocial programmes; a two-day meeting of stakeholders for criticaldiscussion and debate of the guidelines’ content and wording;and commentary on sequential versions of the guidelines froman expert consultant group. Finally, the authors consider themajor differences between SQUIRE and the initial draft guidelines;limitations of and unresolved questions about SQUIRE; ancillarysupporting documents and alternative versions that are underdevelopment; and plans for dissemination, testing and furtherdevelopment of SQUIRE.
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