Between the guidelines: SQUIRE 2.0 and advances in healthcare improvement practice and reporting

The practice and reporting of healthcare improvement has matured significantly since its origin early this century. Most initial improvement reports were akin to management reports or case studies. They often lacked the specificity and details needed to communicate the design, performance and findings with enough precision, accuracy and thoroughness to allow readers to assess validity of the design and execution of the work. Prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) has yielded some of the field's most informative ‘foundation stories,’ illustrating the successes and challenges of identifying interventions that work, why they work and how to make them work in different settings.1 2 An important lesson learned from attempts to replicate potentially generalisable successes, such as checklists for CLABSI,3 was that the behaviours, attitudes, alliances and cultural shifts that occasion, and are occasioned by, the act of improvement are more complex4...
Source: Quality and Safety in Health Care - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Editorials Source Type: research