National quality improvement programmes need time and resources to have an impact

Rob Cook; Tara Lamont; Rosie Martin; NIHR Dissemination Centre

doi:10.1136/bmj.l5462

National quality improvement programmes need time and resources to have an impact

BMJ. 2019 Oct 9:367:l5462. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5462.

Authors

Rob Cook¹, Tara Lamont², Rosie Martin¹; NIHR Dissemination Centre

Affiliations

¹ Bazian, Economist Intelligence Unit Healthcare, London, UK.
² Wessex Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

PMID: 31597637
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l5462

Abstract

The studyPeden CJ, Stephens T, Martin G et al. Effectiveness of a national quality improvement programme to improve survival after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH): a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial. Lancet 2019;393:2213-21.This project was funded by the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (project number 12/5005/10).To read the full NIHR Signal, go to https://discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/content/signal-000789/national-quality-improvement-programmes-need-time-and-resources-to-have-impact.

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Publication types

Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Abdominal Pain / surgery*
Acute Disease
Cluster Analysis
Critical Pathways
Digestive System Surgical Procedures* / standards
Emergency Treatment* / standards
Humans
Program Evaluation
Quality Improvement / organization & administration*
Quality Improvement / standards