Evaluating clinician‐led quality improvement initiatives: A system‐wide embedded research partnership at Stanford Medicine

ABSTRACT: Abstract

Introduction

Many healthcare delivery systems have developed clinician‐led quality improvement (QI) initiatives but fewer have also developed in‐house evaluation units. Engagement between the two entities creates unique opportunities. Stanford Medicine funded a collaboration between their Improvement Capability Development Program (ICDP), which coordinates and incentivizes clinician‐led QI efforts, and the Evaluation Sciences Unit (ESU), a multidisciplinary group of embedded researchers with expertise in implementation and evaluation sciences.

Aim

To describe the ICDP‐ESU partnership and report key learnings from the first 2 y of operation September 2019 to August 2021.

Methods

Department‐level physician and operational QI leaders were offered an ESU con

SUBMITTER: Vilendrer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9576232 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature