Wednesday 17 May | 11:00-12:15

Format: Workshop
Stream: Building capability and leadership
Content filters: Features discussion of improvement methodology

Healthcare staff, improvement professionals, patients and their families and caregivers, in all healthcare settings, design and lead efforts to improve the quality of care. A common and impactful way of sharing those quality improvement (QI) efforts is by publication in peer-reviewed literature. Through lecture and small and large group discussion, this session will help participants to: 1) identify opportunities to publish QI work to disseminate their experiences and new knowledge with others; 2) identify common pitfalls in QI project report submissions to peer-reviewed journals; and 3) describe strategies that can be employed during both the project stage and the writing stage to increase the chances of publication.

After this session, participants will be able to: 

• Identify peer-reviewed publications in which to publish QI reports


• Describe and implement strategies during the conduct of QI projects that will increase the chances of being able to publish the work


• Write improvement reports that avoid the most common pitfalls

Dr Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, BMJ Quality and Safety, The Netherlands

Eric Thomas, University of Texas Health Science Center, BMJ Quality and Safety, USA