Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients' Care

Research is proving that improvement (QI) initiatives are more successful when implemented with an inter-professional approach. Authored by a team of physicians and nurses, the second edition of Fundamentals of Health Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients' Care is grounded in this principle. Charting a course for future health care professionals, the book provides a single source for nursing students, medical students, and resident physicians to learn and practice the basics of QI. The following special features of this updated edition prepare readers to be advanced beginners in QI: methods for identifying and closing the quality gap and improving patient safety; instruction on how to find, evaluate, and apply scientific evidence for improving care; discussion of communication, teamwork, and an inter-professional approach; description of process literacy and a variety of processmodeling/mapping procedures; comparisons between and practical applications of types of measurement; interviews with well-respected change agents about their QI success stories; and educator's guide chapter with activities for medical and nursing students.