E4: How can we improve improvement in health and healthcare? A Conversation with Mary Dixon-Woods
Wednesday 9 June 2021 | 14:15-15:30
Format: Workshop
Stream: Improvement Methods
Additional filters: Features discussion of improvement methodology
Quality improvement leaders, practitioners, and researchers interested in achieving meaningful, sustainable improvements in health and health care have a responsibility to learn about, deepen, and be critical of our own methods, theories, and approaches. In this presentation, Mary Dixon-Woods, Director of THIS Institute and leading scholar in healthcare improvement, healthcare ethics, and methodological innovation in studying healthcare, will share her insights on the state of the field and current opportunities.
The session will include a presentation, panel Q&A (attendees will be able to submit questions), and small group discussions about applications to your work.
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the mixed evidence base for healthcare improvement and why it poses problems for the practice of improvement
- Characterise challenges including problem definition, choices about interventions, measurement, fidelity, and context
- Recognise the tensions between research, evaluation and improvement and why it is important that they are resolved
- Engage in a conversation related to how these themes apply to their work, whether in research or practice
Mary Dixon-Woods, THIS Institute; England