Quality Improvement Research Understanding The Science of Change in Health Care

by Grol, Richard; Baker, Richard W.; Moss, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9780727916402
• ISBN10: 0727916408
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-21
• Publisher: BMJ Books

Summary

Quality improvement in health care is now a stated objective of health services worldwide, yet effective delivery is not always apparent. This book discusses research methods that should help to improve the delivery of quality.

Author Biography

Richard Grol, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, The Netherlands.

Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci , is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford. Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Quality improvement research: the science of change in health care	1	(5)
Richard Grol
Richard Baker
Fiona Moss
Research methods used in developing and applying quality indicators in primary care	6	(23)
Stephen Campbell
Joze Braspenning
Allen Hutchinson
Martin Marshall
Using routine comparative data to assess the quality of health care: understanding and avoiding common pitfalls	29	(22)
Alison Powell
Huw Davies
Richard Thomson
Qualitative methods in research on healthcare quality	51	(13)
Catherine Pope
Paul van Royen
Richard Baker
Research on patients' views in the evaluation and improvement of quality of care	64	(15)
Michel Wensing
Glyn Elwyn
Systematic reviews of the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies and programmes	79	(18)
Jeremy Grimshaw
Laura M McAuley
Lisa A Bero
Roberto Grilli
Andrew D Oxman
Craig Ramsay
Luke Vale
Merrick Zwarenstein
Research designs for studies evaluating the effectiveness of change and improvement strategies	97	(18)
Martin Eccles
Jeremy Grimshaw
Marion Campbell
Craig Ramsay
Evaluation of quality improvement programmes	115	(18)
John Øvretveit
David Gustafson
Methods for evaluation of small scale quality improvement projects	133	(14)
Gill Harvey
Michel Wensing
Designing a quality improvement intervention: a systematic approach	147	(18)
Marloes van Bokhoven
Gerjo Kok
Trudy van der Weijden
Process evaluation of quality improvement interventions	165	(19)
Marlies Hulscher
Miranda Laurant
Richard Grol
Statistical process control as a tool for research and healthcare improvement	184	(19)
James C Benneyan
Robert C Lloyd
Paul E Plsek
Value for money of changing healthcare services? Economic evaluation of quality improvement	203	(16)
Johan L Severens
Index	219