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Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

Critical appraisal of quality improvement intervention publications

These are only a few tools that you might consider using when you need to critically appraise QI publications:

Rapid critical appraisal
Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice (EBP) in Nursing and Healthcare. (2018). Rapid critical appraisal of a quality improvement project

QI-MQCS
Hempel S, Shekelle PG, Liu JL, Danz MS, Foy R, Lim YW, Motala A, Rubenstein LV. Development of the Quality Improvement Minimum Quality Criteria Set (QI-MQCS): a tool for critical appraisal of quality improvement intervention publications. BMJ quality & safety. 2015 Dec 1;24(12):796-804.

Presentation by Jennifer Twiss
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Critical appraisal of QI literature

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