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Academic Session: Strategies for improving academic science

Abstract

Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013:

Quality improvement and patient safety are high priorities yet insufficient progress has been made in improvement science. Improvement projects are often focused at the microsystem level, precluding sufficient data for rigorous and generalizable conclusions. Furthermore, advancements in the field are hampered by the lack of a national research agenda with clearly defined priorities to systematically build knowledge. The NIH-funded Improvement Science research Network (ISRN) is a national network for improvement and translational science. Early work of this developing network was to establish a national research agenda in improvement science.

Author Details

Kathleen R. Stevens, RN, MS, EdD; Frank Puga; Darpan I. Patel, PhD

Sigma Membership

Delta Alpha at-Large

Lead Author Affiliation

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Type

Presentation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

N/A

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Research Priorities, Quality Improvement, Improvement Science

Conference Name

Creating Healthy Work Environments 2013

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International

Conference Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Conference Year

2013

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Creating a national research agenda for improvement science

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013:

Quality improvement and patient safety are high priorities yet insufficient progress has been made in improvement science. Improvement projects are often focused at the microsystem level, precluding sufficient data for rigorous and generalizable conclusions. Furthermore, advancements in the field are hampered by the lack of a national research agenda with clearly defined priorities to systematically build knowledge. The NIH-funded Improvement Science research Network (ISRN) is a national network for improvement and translational science. Early work of this developing network was to establish a national research agenda in improvement science.