title: Creatively Improving Care Delivery.
abstract: The medical community has been challenged to improve upon deficiencies in the delivery of patient care. Quality improvement methods are therefore increasingly used in everyday clinical practice. As demonstrated in this review, creative and impactful improvement projects within pediatric gastroenterology can be successfully achieved as either multicenter projects or single-center efforts. Through our willingness to accept the challenge to improve, practitioners within the pediatric gastroenterology community have become leaders in using quality improvement to change practice and improve clinical outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
authors.forename: Brendan M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Boyle
authors.forename: Ivor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist; D003405:Creativity; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D005762:Gastroenterology / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D064872:Patient Care Bundles; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012042:Registries