Briefly, panel members independently rated each network on the impact of its projects on quality of care and system-wide change [ 1], Dominello A, Yano EM, Klineberg E, Redman S, Craig J, Brown B, Haines M: Measuring the impact of diverse quality improvement activities of clinical networks using the EXpert PANel Decision (EXPAND) method, unpublished.
Details of the Expert Panel rating process are available in Dominello et al. [Dominello A, Yano EM, Klineberg E, Redman S, Craig J, Brown B, Haines M: Measuring the impact of diverse quality improvement activities of clinical networks using the EXpert PANel Decision (EXPAND) method, unpublished].
We organised a 12-member expert panel, intentionally encompassing a diverse range of methodological perspectives representing both quality improvement and research expertise.
A broad range of quality improvement measures were instituted, targeting diverse evidence-based practices.
When generic quality improvement interventions are done in diverse populations, subgroup analyses that evaluate the effect of the interventions in racial/ethnic minority patients would increase our understanding the effect on equity of treatment.
There are diverse opportunities, including case studies, literature reviews, teaching conferences, quality improvement projects, as well as research projects.
3 5 For several years preceding the Colloquium, colleagues met at the International Forums on Quality Improvement in Health Care to explore the diverse knowledge systems and controversies that underpin system-level, data-driven improvement research and practice.
It demonstrates the need to account for patients' plural understandings of quality improvement in the context of the diverse health policies and cultural ideals circulating in the environments where patients receive care.
However, no other known large scale initiatives were introduced across Michigan during the implementation period, and inclusion of a large and diverse comparison group excluded region specific temporal trends or national quality improvement efforts as an explanation for the findings.
In addition, health professionals were commonly found to conceptualise accreditation differently (e.g. variously as a regulatory obligation, method to obtain financial incentives, or tool to validate local quality improvement efforts), resulting in organisations enacting programs in diverse ways.
Scholars in the Graduate School of Business and in the diverse social science departments offer valuable contributions on issues of cost control, quality improvement and dissemination.
