With these words, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Quality of Health Care in America rocketed quality improvement (QI) from relative obscurity to the national imperative we serve today. Buerhaus (2010) noted that the nursing profession responded to the charge in two major ways. The ...
Their questions and declarations stimulated us to think about two important issues: first, the importance of a high quality and effective peer-review in a scientific nursing journal and second, the peer-review system, its monitoring and contribution to quality improvement....
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Journal of Nursing Care Quality (JNCQ) is a peer-reviewed journal that provides practicing nurses as well as nurses who have leadership roles in nursing care quality programs with useful information regarding the application of quality principles and con
Quality Improvement Processes Applied to Infusion Nursing Practice.Gaines, Brenda S.Journal of Infusion NursingGaines BS. Quality improvement processes applied to infusion nursing practice. Journal of Intravenous Nursing 1993; 16 (6): 326-32
Brock and coauthors report on a quality improvement initiative by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve care transitions for
Conclusions Although progress has been made, there is still room for improvement in the quality of RCT reporting in nursing journals. Special attention must be paid to how adequately studies adhere to the CONSORT prior to publication in nursing journals. Clinical Relevance Evidence from (RCTs) are...
Objective.—To develop quality improvement (QI) guidelines and programs to improve treatment outcomes for patients with acute pain and cancer
This quality improvement study of 14 717 nursing homes examines whether staffing instability, defined as the percentage of days below average staffing
The growing adoption of continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives in healthcare has generated a surge in research interest to gain a deeper understanding of CQI. However, comprehensive evidence regarding the diverse facets of CQI in healthcare has