The Irish national chronic obstructive pulmonary disease quality improvement collaborative: an adaptive learning collaborative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the the most common disease-specific cause of adult emergency hospital admissions in Ireland. Preliminary groundwork indicated that treatment of acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) in Ireland is not standardised between public hospitals. Applying Institute for Healthcare Improvement Breakthrough Series and Model for Improvement methodologies, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland designed and conducted a novel flexible and adaptive quality improvement (QI) collaborative which, using embedded evaluation, aimed to deliver QI teaching to enable teams to implement bespoke, locally applicable changes to improve and standardise acute COPD care at presentation, admission and discharge stages within their hospitals.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Woods O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806582 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature