Medical revalidation: From compliance to commitment

"Medical revalidation, with the right conditions, can be a valuable driver of behaviours and cultures that support sustained quality improvement. The time to develop those conditions is now. Above all, leaders should bear in mind that large-scale change requires them to have the tenacity and vision to create a process that is valued by all who are involved in it." 

Medical revalidation: From compliance to commitment
V Nath, B Seale, M Kaur
The Kings's Fund
March 2014

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What can the UK learn from healthcare innovation in India?

"Participants saw first-hand how innovation can drive quality and efficiency simultaneously, two dimensions that, in the US and UK, we often think of as opposing values."

What can the UK learn from healthcare innovation in India?: Reflections from an International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) study tour to India
The Health Foundation
February 2014

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Tools for continuous quality improvement

This set of tools has been provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and encourage feedback on whether they are helpful for research.

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Measuring organizational and individual factors thought to influence the success of quality improvement in primary care

"For researchers and those evaluating continuous quality improvement in practice, this guidance should lessen the burden of locating relevant measures and may enhance the contribution their research makes by increasing the quality of measurement and the potential to synthesise findings across studies."

Measuring organizational and individual factors thought to influence the success of quality improvement in primary care: a systematic review of instruments
SE Brennan, M Bosch, H Buchan, SE Green
Implementation Science, 7:121

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Factors thought to influence the success of quality improvement in primary care

"This review aimed to provide guidance for researchers seeking to measure factors thought to modify the effect of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in primary care settings."

Measuring organizational and individual factors thought to influence the success of quality improvement in primary care: a systematic review
SE Brennan, M Bosch, H Buchan, SE Green
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:121

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