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Quality collaboratives: lessons from research

Øvretveit, J.; Bate, P.; Cleary, P.; Cretin, S.; Gustafson, D.; McInnes, K.; McLeod, H.; ... Wilson, T.; + view all (2002) Quality collaboratives: lessons from research. Quality and Safety in Health Care , 11 (4) pp. 345-351. 10.1136/qhc.11.4.345. Green open access

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Abstract

Quality improvement collaboratives are increasingly being used in many countries to achieve rapid improvements in health care. However, there is little independent evidence that they are more cost effective than other methods, and little knowledge about how they could be made more effective. A number of systematic evaluations are being performed by researchers in North America, the UK, and Sweden. This paper presents the shared ideas from two meetings of these researchers. The evidence to date is that some collaboratives have stimulated improvements in patient care and organisational performance, but there are significant differences between collaboratives and teams. The researchers agreed on the possible reasons why some were less successful than others, and identified 10 challenges which organisers and teams need to address to achieve improvement. In the absence of more conclusive evidence, these guidelines are likely to be useful for collaborative organisers, teams and their managers and may also contribute to further research into collaboratives and the spread of innovations in health care.

Type: Article
Title: Quality collaboratives: lessons from research
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1136/qhc.11.4.345
Publisher version: http://qhc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/4/3...
Language: English
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics > CHIME
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1130
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