A Board Level Intervention to Develop Organisation-Wide Quality Improvement Strategies: Cost-Consequences Analysis in 15 Healthcare Organisations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital boards have statutory responsibility for upholding the quality of care in their organisations. International research on quality in hospitals resulted in a research-based guide to help senior hospital leaders develop and implement quality improvement (QI) strategies, the QUASER Guide. Previous research has established a link between board practices and quality of care; however, to our knowledge, no board-level intervention has been evaluated in relation to its costs and consequences. The aim of this research was to evaluate these impacts when the QUASER Guide was implemented in an organisational development intervention (iQUASER).

Methods

We conducted a 'before and after' cost-consequences analysis (CCA), as part of a mixed methods evaluation. The analysi

SUBMITTER: Barbosa EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9278604 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature