You are here

Article info

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Viewpoint
How to attribute causality in quality improvement: lessons from epidemiology

Authors

  • Alan J Poots National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North West London (NWL), Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julie E Reed National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North West London (NWL), Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Thomas Woodcock National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North West London (NWL), Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Derek Bell National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North West London (NWL), Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Don Goldmann Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alan J Poots, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North West London (NWL), Imperial College London, SW10 9NH, London, UK; a.poots{at}imperial.ac.uk
View Full Text

Citation

Poots AJ, Reed JE, Woodcock T, et al
How to attribute causality in quality improvement: lessons from epidemiology
BMJ Quality & Safety 2017;26:933-937.

Publication history

  • Received March 29, 2017
  • Revised June 23, 2017
  • Accepted July 21, 2017
  • First published August 2, 2017.
Online issue publication 
October 18, 2017

Article Versions

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.