A proposed classification for quality improvement interventions

An iterative process to develop a classification framework of quality improvement interventions (QIIs) enlisted the opinions of 27 quality improvement experts in the USA. The participants were selected from among health services and public health researchers who represented the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, the Centers for Disease Control, The Veterans Administration, The National Institutes for Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The classification framework was based on a heterogeneous convenience sample of 80 selected reports. It divided articles into: 1) empirical reports of development and testing of QIIs (divided further into sub-categories of development of QIIs; history, documentation or description of QIIs; and success, effectiveness and impact of …