Background: Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) are used extensively to promote
quality improvement in health care. Evidence of their effectiveness is limited, prompting calls …

Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) have long been used to facilitate group learning
and implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in healthcare. However, few …

Context In response to national efforts to improve quality of care, policymakers and health
care leaders have increasingly turned to quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) as an …

6. Initiating quality improvement efforts that involve most of the region's stakeholders projects
7. Advocating and facilitating environmental changes that support data-based public …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Questions, or what the physicist and learning expert
Reginald Revans called “insightful inquiry,” are essential to learning. People remember and …

The patient-centered medical home model of primary care requires increased collaboration
in care delivery. Recent studies suggest that such a collaborative model of care is aided by …

Intensive efforts are under way to improve health care quality and safety throughout the
United States and abroad. Many of these efforts use the quality improvement collaborative …

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate a primary care practice–based quality
improvement (QI) intervention aimed at improving colorectal cancer screening rates …

Article-at-a-Glance Background In 1998 SSM Health Care (St Louis) began a series of
clinical collaboratives modeled after The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (Boston) …

Engaging individual members of clinical teams in practice improvement initiatives is a
challenge. In this commentary, we first summarize evidence supporting enhanced …