Disseminating quality improvement: study protocol for a large cluster-randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dissemination is a critical facet of implementing quality improvement in organizations. As a field, addiction treatment has produced effective interventions but disseminated them slowly and reached only a fraction of people needing treatment. This study investigates four methods of disseminating quality improvement (QI) to addiction treatment programs in the U.S. It is, to our knowledge, the largest study of organizational change ever conducted in healthcare. The trial seeks to determine the most cost-effective method of disseminating quality improvement in addiction treatment.

Methods

The study is evaluating the costs and effectiveness of different QI approaches by randomizing 201 addiction-treatment programs to four interventions. Each intervention used a web-ba

SUBMITTER: Quanbeck AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3108336 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature