Realizing the Improvement Potential of the Value in Inpatient Pediatrics Network

The gap between evidence-based practice and current clinical care is seen across the spectrum of hospitalized pediatric patients.1,2 The field of quality improvement (QI) was born out of this gap. QI promotes the use of improvement methodologies to both decrease variation and improve the delivery of high-quality care as measured by nationally endorsed benchmarks. Part and parcel to improvement methodologies is the dissemination of the local plan-do-study-act cycle and the importance of starting small in any implementation.

Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - May 28, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Sangeeta K. Schroeder Tags: Editorial Source Type: research