Across the world, healthcare organisations are implementing radical change strategies in the face of unprecedented financial challenge. In this context, a focus on building capacity and capability for improvement is a key strategy. Global analysis shows that the most common characteristic of healthcare organisations that deliver outstanding performance in cost and quality is a systematic approa...

This supplement is focused on the methods, results and recommendations from the research project ‘‘Methods of Assessing Response to Quality Improvement Strategies’’ (MARQuIS). MARQuIS was funded by the Scientific Support to Policies component of the European Union Sixth Framework Research Programme (Contract SP21-CT2004-513712), and it lasted from January 2004 to June 2008. MARQuIS was coordina...

BACKGROUND Over the last two decades, we have seen the successive rise and fall of a number of concepts, ideas or methods in healthcare quality improvement (QI). Paradoxically, the content of many of these QI methodologies is very similar, though their presentation often seeks to differentiate or distinguish them. METHODS This paper sets out to explore the processes by which new QI methodolog...

Background and Objectives: There is a growing tendency in Iran’s health sector for adoption of standard excellence models for improving quality in healthcare organizations. The European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM) model is a widely used framework for continuous quality management within healthcare facilities. The purpose of this article is to extend the view of current status of qua...

The Atlantic Healthcare Collaboration for Innovation and Improvement in Chronic Disease (AHC) Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) in Eastern Canada provided an approach to spur system-level reform across multiple health systems for patients and families living with chronic disease. Developed and led by senior executives with a unique governance approach and involving clinical front-line tea...

The methods for healthcare reform are strikingly underdeveloped, with much reliance on political power. A methodology that combined methods from sources such as clinical trials, experience-based wisdom, and improvement science could be among the aims of the upcoming work in the USA on comparative effectiveness and on the agenda of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the Centers f...

Introduction: The basic purpose of the professional continuing education is facilitating the successful conduct of practitioners in the fi eld of practical characteristics of their professional work. Topic: In the Republic of Serbia (RS), the current Ordinance on Closer Conditions for Continuing Education for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare Associates implies that there is a connection betwee...

The past several years have brought intensive scrutiny to all aspects of our healthcare system’s performance. While other industries have widely deployed continuous improvement cycles and adopted waste-reducing lean production methods, the U. S. healthcare sector lags far behind. The growing cost of healthcare in the U.S. in the face of increasingly documented lackluster quality and daily harmf...

Background Quality improvement should be assigned as the main mission for healthcare providers. Clinical Governance (CG) is used not only as a strategy focusing on responding to public and government’s intolerance of poor healthcare standards, but also it is implemented for quality improvement in a number of countries. This study aims to identify the key contributing factors in the implementati...

background quality improvement should be assigned as the main mission for healthcare providers. clinical governance (cg) is used not only as a strategy focusing on responding to public and government’s intolerance of poor healthcare standards, but also it is implemented for quality improvement in a number of countries. this study aims to identify the key contributing factors in the implementati...