Transferring skills in quality collaboratives focused on improving patient logistics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A quality improvement collaborative, often used by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is used to educate healthcare professionals and improve healthcare at the same time. However, no prior research has been done on the knowledge and skills healthcare professionals need to achieve improvements or the extent to which quality improvement collaboratives help enhance both knowledge and skills. Our research focused on quality improvement collaboratives aiming to improve patient logistics and tried to identify which knowledge and skills are required and to what extent these were enhanced during the QIC.

Methods

We defined skills important for logistic improvements in a three-phase Delphi study. Based on the Delphi results we made a questionnaire. We surveyed parti

SUBMITTER: Weggelaar-Jansen AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879809 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature