The exceptional potential for quality improvement methods in the design and modelling of complex interventions.
Year: 2008
Type: editorial
Abstract: Although the actions of a particular clinician with anindividual patient in the consultation are importantfor a successful outcome for that service user, qualityimprovement is rarely due to individual efforts. Instead,it is usually the sum of actions of individuals linked through their professional roles, the teams and organisations in which they work as well as the widercontext of health care. These together constitute thesystem of care; the focus therefore has to be to developthe system in order to support individual clinical decisionsat the front line of health care. The series ofeditorial and discussion papers in this themed issueon ‘Organisational and Educational Interventions forQuality Improvement’ tackle how this might be bestachieved. They address which organisational interventionsimprove care, why education underpins theireffectiveness, how the organisational context providesthe glue to link these and the contribution of the widerpolicy context to fuel change.
Source: PubMed
Author: A Niroshan Siriwardena
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W21222971