title: Collaboration: a framework for clinical quality improvement.
abstract: Healthcare organizations are being challenged to find ways to leverage improvement efforts. Collaboration offers an avenue for working together toward a common goal. Healthcare leaders can initiate collaborative projects to analyze common clinical problems and to share best practices. This article describes how a Catholic healthcare system successfully initiated a systemwide collaborative clinical quality improvement project to deal with patient falls.
authors.affiliation: Catholic Health Corporation, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Kleeb
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control; D002410:Catholicism; D003625:Data Collection; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D004496:Education, Continuing; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States