This post contains all of the articles in the May 2024 QI Evidence Update. These are searchable using the search bar.
Quality Improvement
Recording: IHI BMJ International Forum on Quality & Safety - Keynotes (Apr 2024)
Podcast: Unlocking improvement through better staff experience (NHS Confederation, May 2024)
Recording: St Andrew's Healthcare Virtual Quality Improvement Conference (Apr 2024)
A scoping review of continuous quality improvement in healthcare system: conceptualization, models and tools, barriers and facilitators, and impact (BMC Heath Services Research, Apr 2024)
Barriers and enablers for externally and internally driven implementation processes in healthcare: a qualitative cross-case study (BMC Heath Services Research, Apr 2024)
The use of positive deviance approach to improve health service delivery and quality of care: a scoping review (BMC Heath Services Research, Apr 2024)
Virtual quality improvement collaborative with primary care practices during COVID-19: a case study within a clinically integrated network (BMJ Open Quality, Feb 2024)
Quality of locally designed surveys in a quality improvement collaborative: review of survey validity and identification of common errors (BMJ Open Quality, Feb 2024)
Using active learning strategies during a quality improvement collaborative: exploring educational games to enhance learning among healthcare professionals (BMJ Open Quality, Apr 2024)
Customised knowledge-sharing platform to foster resident quality improvement activities, tracking and scholarship (BMJ Open Quality, Jan 2024)
Effective use of interdisciplinary approaches in healthcare quality: drawing on operations and visual management (BMJ Quality & Safety, Mar 2024)
Using quality improvement to pursue equity: lessons from healthcare (British Journal of Healthcare Management, Apr 2024)
Design as a quality improvement strategy: the case for design expertise (Future Healthcare Journal, Feb 2024)
Dental Quality Improvement in an Integrated Health Care Setting: Pedal Faster (Journal of the California Dental Association, Feb 2024)
Engaging health care professionals in quality improvement: A qualitative study exploring the synergies between projects of professionalisation and institutionalisation in quality improvement collaborative implementation in Denmark (Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Jan 2024)
From Theory to Practice: Development and Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents (Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, Jan 2024)
Co-designing Healthcare Quality Improvement: The Kovacs Burns & George Orientation Guide (Journal of Patient Experience, Jan 2024)
Model for Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects Based on Cross-Fertilization Between Improvement and Implementation Sciences: Protocol for Quality Improvement and Program Evaluation Studies (JMIR Research Protocols, Jan 2024)
Green projects saving NHS trust over 38,000kg in carbon emissions & £10,000 a year CASE STUDY (National Health Executive, Feb 2024)
Excellence Through Equality: Anti-Racism as a Quality Improvement Tool (NHS Confederation, Apr 2024)
Quality Improvement Methods (LEAN, PDSA, SIX SIGMA) (StatPearls, Jan 2024)
Approaches to Spread, Scale-Up, and Sustainability (THIS Institute, Jan 2024)
Patients & people
Investigating patient engagement associations between a post discharge texting programme and patient experience, readmission and revisit rates outcomes (BMJ Open, Feb 2024)
Patient and public involvement in the development of health services: Engagement of underserved populations in a quality improvement programme for inflammatory bowel disease using a community-based participatory approach (Health Expectations, Feb 2024)
Approaches for enhancing patient-reported experience measurement with ethnically diverse communities: a rapid evidence synthesis (International Journal for Equity in Health, Feb 2024)
Association between physician resource utilization, throughput, and patient experience in the emergency department (Journal of Emergency Medicine Trauma and Acute Care, Feb 2024)
Complaint management system and patient satisfaction in grassroots hospitals (Medicine, Feb 2024)
Understanding social dynamics and patient experience in out of hospital care: validation of a co-responsibility questionnaire (CoReCare) (Nature, Feb 2024)
Patient-Centered Innovation: Involving Patients in Open Social Innovation (Patient Centred Care, Apr 2024)
Patient experience of diagnostics report (Patients Association, Feb 2024)
Integrated care
What do Virtual Wards look like in England? (Health Foundation, Feb 2024)
Which technologies offer the biggest opportunities to save time in the NHS? (Health Foundation, Apr 2024)
The past and future of NHS waiting lists in England (Institute for Fiscal Studies, Feb 2024)
Top Tips and Key Actions for Successful Collaborative Partnership Working Across Mental Health Services (Local Government Association, Apr 2024)
A vision for the NHS ambulance sector: co-designing urgent and emergency care provision (NHS Confederation, Mar 2024)
Are there too many NHS managers? (NHS Confederation, Feb 2024)
Six ways to create a culture for integration: Benchmarking tool (NHS Employers, Mar 2024)
The importance of partnership working on health, safety and wellbeing (NHS Employers, March 2024)
How partnership working in Sefton is creating a person-centred approach to hospital discharge (NHS England, Feb 2024)
Discharge from Mental Health Care: making it safe and patient-centred (Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Feb 2024)
Making care closer to home a reality (The Kings Fund, Feb 2024)
Mental Health 360 (The King's Fund, Feb 2024)
The role of integrated care systems in improving dementia diagnosis (The King's Fund, Apr 2024)
A report into the state of health and social care in Britain today (Times Health Commission, Feb 2024)
Population health & prevention
How to embed action on health inequalities into ICSs (NHS Confederation, Mar 2024)
Healthier lives in Leicester: why tackling health inequalities sits at the heart of our new trust strategy BLOG (NHS England, Feb 2024)
A new approach to defining ‘place’ that’s supporting action on health inequalities (The Health Foundation, Jan 2024)
Health Inequalities in 2040: Current and Projected Patterns of Illness by Deprivation in England (The Health Foundation, Apr 2024)
Inequalities in life expectancy: how the UK compares (The Health Foundation, Feb 2024)
Interpreting the latest life expectancy data (The Health Foundation, Feb 2024)
Health inequalities in a nutshell (The Kings Fund, Feb 2024)