title: Quality improvement interventions: what works?
abstract: Quality improvement efforts in healthcare focus on the use of interventions and tools to change identified processes. What interventions and tools are effective? A survey of the literature yields information on interventions and tools that have been used to successfully create quality improvement. Effective methods for changing clinical practice include face-to-face education outreach visits, involvement of local opinion leaders, reminder systems, repeated feedback from the senior medical staff, patient-mediated interventions, and a combination of interventions deployed simultaneously. Participation in an organized continuous quality improvement process is beneficial in conjunction with additional interventions.
authors.affiliation: Missouri Patient Care Review Foundation, USA. kstrom@worldnet.att.net
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Strom
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States