Elements of Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare – serie
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Approaches to Spread, Scale-Up, and Sustainability
Av Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Trisha Greenhalgh m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
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Few interventions that succeed in improving healthcare locally end up becoming spread and sustained more widely. This indicates that we need to think differently about spreading improvements in practice. Drawing on a focused review of academic and grey literature, the authors outline how spread, …
Collaboration-Based Approaches
Av Graham Martin, Mary Dixon-Woods
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Collaboration-based approaches to healthcare improvement attract much attention. They involve networks of people coming together to cooperate around a common interest, with shared goals of improving care and mutual learning. Longstanding examples of collaborative approaches have been associated …
Making Culture Change Happen
Häftad, 2022
311 kr
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Healthcare policy frequently invokes notions of cultural change as a means of achieving improvement and good-quality care. This Element unpacks what is meant by organisational culture and explores the evidence for linking culture to healthcare quality and performance. It considers the origins of …
Operational Research Approaches
Av Martin Utley, Sonya Crowe m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Operational research is a collection of modelling techniques used to structure, analyse, and solve problems related to the design and operation of complex human systems. While many argue that operational research should play a key role in improving healthcare services, staff may be largely unaware …
Co-Producing and Co-Designing
Av Glenn Robert, Louise Locock m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Many healthcare improvement approaches originated in manufacturing, where end users are framed as consumers. But in healthcare, greater recognition of the complexity of relationships between patients, staff, and services (beyond a provider-consumer exchange) is generating new insights and …
Implementation Science
Häftad, 2022
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This Element introduces and critically reflects on the contribution of implementation science to healthcare improvement efforts. Grounded in several disciplines, implementation science is the study of strategies to promote the uptake of evidence-based interventions into healthcare practice and …
The Positive Deviance Approach
Av Ruth Baxter, Rebecca Lawton
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Positive deviance is an asset-based improvement approach. At its core is the belief that solutions to problems already exist within communities, and that identifying, understanding, and sharing these solutions enables improvements at scale. Originating in the field of international public health in …
Governance and Leadership
Av Naomi J. Fulop, Angus I. G. Ramsay
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Lessons from service and system failures describe the pivotal roles played by governance and leadership in delivering high-quality, safe care. This Element sets out what the terms governance and leadership mean and how thinking about them has developed over time. Using real-world examples, the …
Reducing Overuse
Av Caroline Cupit, Carolyn Tarrant m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Overuse has become a major issue of healthcare quality, safety, and sustainability around the world. In this Element, the authors discuss concepts, terminology, and the history of concerns. They show how interventions to address overuse target multiple drivers. They highlight successes and …
Values and Ethics
Av Alan Cribb, Vikki Entwistle m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Ethics involves examining values and identifying what is good, right, and justified - and why. Diverse values and ethical issues run through healthcare improvement, but they are not always recognised or given the attention they need. While much effort goes into understanding whether intervention X …
Supply Chain Management
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Creating a well-integrated, resilient, and highly transparent supply chain is central to effective and safe patient care. But managing healthcare supply chains is complex; common challenges include the underuse, overuse, and misuse of health resources. This Element introduces the key principles and …
Design Creativity
Av Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Sue Hignett m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Design creativity describes the process by which needs are explored and translated into requirements for change. This Element examines the role of design creativity within the context of healthcare improvement. It begins by outlining the characteristics of design thinking, and the key status of the …
Operations Management
Av Michael A. Lewis, Christos Vasilakis
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Operations management has an important role in improving healthcare. Some of its core concepts and tools, such as Lean and statistical process control, have their own Elements in this series. In this Element, the authors offer an overview of three major topics in healthcare operations management: …
Learning Health Systems
Av Thomas Foley, Leora I. Horwitz
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Despite enormous efforts at healthcare improvement, major challenges remain in achieving optimal outcomes, safety, cost, and value. This Element introduces the concept of learning health systems, which have been proposed as a possible solution. Though many different variants of the concept exist, …
Health Economics
Av Andrew Street, Nils Gutacker
Häftad, 2024
291 kr
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This Element examines economic perspectives on improving quality and safety in healthcare. Though competition is generally recognised by economists as an important driver of improvement, it may not work so straightforwardly in healthcare - in part because some services are provided by very few …
Measurement for Improvement
Av Alene Toulany, Kaveh G. Shojania
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The main principles underpinning measurement for healthcare improvement are outlined in this Element. Although there is no single formula for achieving optimal measurement to support improvement, a fundamental principle is the importance of using multiple measures and approaches to gathering data. …
Lean as a Healthcare Improvement Approach
Av Zoe Radnor, Sharon J. Williams
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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Lean is one of the most widely used improvement approaches in healthcare. With origins in manufacturing, it focuses on improving efficiency, eliminating waste, and streamlining processes. This Element provides an overview of the evidence for the use of Lean in healthcare, summarises the supporting …
Education and Training as Improvement Interventions
Av Lauren E. Benishek, Albert W. Wu m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Delivering safe, high-quality care needs a competent and capable workforce, particularly as clinical practices change with scientific and technical advances. Structured learning opportunities are a central approach to building and maintaining competencies, but ineffective training wastes the scarce …
Clinical Microsystems and Team Coaching
Av Steve Harrison, Rachael Finn m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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Microsystems are the building blocks of the healthcare system. They are the small functional frontline units that provide most healthcare to most people, be it a clinic or a ward. The microsystem improvement approach engages teams at the frontline of care with patients and families in a structured …
Statistical Process Control
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Statistical process control methodology was developed by Walter Shewhart in the 1920s as part of his work on quality control in industry. Shewhart observed that quality is about hitting target specifications with minimum variation. While every process is subject to variation, that variation can …
Simulation as an Improvement Technique
Av Victoria Brazil, Eve Purdy m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Historically simulation was used as an education and training technique in healthcare, but now has an emerging role in improving quality and safety. Simulation-based techniques can be applied to help understand healthcare settings and the practices and behaviours of those who work in them. …
Workplace Conditions
Av Jill Maben, Jane Ball m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
291 kr
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This Element reviews the evidence for three workplace conditions that matter for improving quality and safety in healthcare: staffing; psychological safety, teamwork, and speaking up; and staff health and well-being at work. The authors propose that these are environmental prerequisites for …
Health Economics
Av Andrew Street, Nils Gutacker
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element examines economic perspectives on improving quality and safety in healthcare. Though competition is generally recognised by economists as an important driver of improvement, it may not work so straightforwardly in healthcare - in part because some services are provided by very few …
Governance and Leadership
Av Naomi J. Fulop, Angus I. G. Ramsay
Inbunden, 2023
938 kr
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Lessons from service and system failures describe the pivotal roles played by governance and leadership in delivering high-quality, safe care. This Element sets out what the terms governance and leadership mean and how thinking about them has developed over time. Using real-world examples, the …
Approaches to Spread, Scale-Up, and Sustainability
Av Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Trisha Greenhalgh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Few interventions that succeed in improving healthcare locally end up becoming spread and sustained more widely. This indicates that we need to think differently about spreading improvements in practice. Drawing on a focused review of academic and grey literature, the authors outline how spread, …
Statistical Process Control
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Statistical process control methodology was developed by Walter Shewhart in the 1920s as part of his work on quality control in industry. Shewhart observed that quality is about hitting target specifications with minimum variation. While every process is subject to variation, that variation can …
Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change
Av Noah Ivers, Robbie Foy
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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Using audit to identify where improvement is needed and providing feedback to healthcare professionals to encourage behaviour change is an important healthcare improvement strategy. In this Element, the authors review the evidence base for using audit and feedback to support improvement, …
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Häftad, 2026
317 kr
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Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) is a discipline concerned with designing interactions in sociotechnical systems to improve both system performance and human well-being. This Element introduces the core principles of HFE, tracing its development from multidisciplinary efforts to solve practical …
Inspection in Healthcare
Av Abbie Greig, Graham Martin m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
253 kr
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Inspection is a widely used strategy in the regulation of healthcare, yet its effectiveness is less certain than its ubiquity might suggest. Drawing on regulatory theory and empirical studies, this Element examines how inspection is intended to work, what it can be expected to achieve, and why …
