ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2022
Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: a Scoping Review of the Literature.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Commentary on "Protecting Against Unintended Risk From Student Quality Improvement Projects in Health Care".Advances in health information science and practice · 2026Article
- Champions as catalysts for change: a realist evaluation of their impact in primary care.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Integrating HIV prevention services into care settings for people with opioid use disorder (OUD): a study protocol for implementation strategy development and modeling.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Evidence-Based Approaches to Quality Improvement: A Narrative Review of Integrating Bayesian Adaptive Trials Into Health Services.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Review
- Implementation of a comprehensive clinical quality assurance system in radiation oncology.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2025Article
- Organizational characteristics associated with sustained participation in internal quality improvement: Findings from two waves of a national sample of physician practices in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- A scoping review of Dialectical Behavior Therapy with patients with minoritized identity constructs.Counselling and psychotherapy research · 2025Article
- Strengthening Reliability and Sustainability: Integrating Training Within Industry (TWI) in a Quality Improvement Collaborative.Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare · 2025Article
- Developing the Agile Institute, an effort to incorporate agile methodologies into Hackensack Meridian Health.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury Care Bundle: A Quality Improvement Initiative.International urogynecology journal · 2024Article
- Quality and reporting of large-scale improvement programmes: a review of maternity initiatives in the English NHS, 2010-2023.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Review
- Building Social Support and Moral Healing on Nursing Units: Design and Implementation of a Culture Change Intervention.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Implementing evidence-based practices to improve primary care for high-risk patients: study protocol for the VA high-RIsk VETerans (RIVET) type III effectiveness-implementation trial.Implementation science communications · 2024Article
- Advancing Our Understanding of Provider Behavior Change for Improved Health Outcomes.Global health, science and practice · 2023Article
- Multiple chemical sensitivity scoping review protocol: overview of research and MCS construct.BMJ open · 2023Article
- A Public Health Critical Race Praxis Informed Congestive Heart Failure Quality Improvement Initiative on Inpatient General Medicine.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) in the pre-implementation phase: key steps and activities.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundQuality improvement (QI) initiatives often reflect approaches based on anecdotal evidence, but it is unclear how initiatives can best incorporate scientific literature and methods into the QI process. Review of studies of QI initiatives that aim to systematically incorporate evidence review (termed evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI)) may provide a basis for further methodological development.
methodsIn this scoping review (registration: https://osf.io/hr5bj ) of EBQI, we searched the databases PubMed, CINAHL, and SCOPUS. The review addressed three central questions: How is EBQI defined? How is evidence used to inform evidence-informed QI initiatives? What is the effectiveness of EBQI?
resultsWe identified 211 publications meeting inclusion criteria. In total, 170 publications explicitly used the term "EBQI." Published definitions emphasized relying on evidence throughout the QI process. We reviewed a subset of 67 evaluations of QI initiatives in primary care, including both studies that used the term "EBQI" with those that described an evidence-based initiative without using EBQI terminology. The most frequently reported EBQI components included use of evidence to identify previously tested effective QI interventions; engaging stakeholders; iterative intervention development; partnering with frontline clinicians; and data-driven evaluation of the QI intervention. Effectiveness estimates were positive but varied in size in ten studies that provided data on patient health outcomes.
conclusionsEBQI is a promising strategy for integrating relevant prior scientific findings and methods systematically in the QI process, from the initial developmental phase of the IQ initiative through to its evaluation. Future QI researchers and practitioners can use these findings as the basis for further development of QI initiatives.
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