Theme: Quality Improvement Initiatives

Why quality improvement initiatives succeed or fail: the MUSIQ of quality improvement.

How to Write Up Your Quality Improvement Initiatives for Publication.

T he Journal of Graduate Medical Education often receives submissions from trainees and educators highlighting work they do in quality improvement (QI). This is remarkably encouraging given the emphasis that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Next Accreditation System has placed on integrating QI into the clinical learning environment. A major challenge for editors...

Incorporating Child Assessments into State Early Childhood Quality Improvement Initiatives

Q uality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) have become an increasingly popular mechanism in states and localities seeking to raise the quality of their early care and education (ECE) programs. Typically, QRISs provide ratings of ECE programs based on multicomponent assessments designed to make quality transparent to parents and funders, as well as feedback, technical assistance, and financ...

Engaging clinicians in quality improvement initiatives: art or science?

Assessing quality improvement initiatives when expert judgements are uncertain

A new approach for examining quality improvement initiatives regarding errors in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Master Address File (MAF) and the Topologically Integrated Geographic and Referencing System (TIGER) databases is presented. A stochastic multi-criteria decision-making method involving Bayesian weighted hierarchical multinomial logit models is used to conduct inference on the priorities in...