{"id":458,"date":"2018-09-20T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/?p=458"},"modified":"2019-02-19T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T11:49:57","slug":"c4-what-makes-quality-improvement-an-improvement-science-the-science-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/2018\/09\/20\/c4-what-makes-quality-improvement-an-improvement-science-the-science-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"C4: What makes \u201cquality improvement\u201d an \u201cimprovement science?\u201d The \u201cscience&#8221; matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Thursday 28 March<\/strong><br><strong>15:00 &#8211; 16:00\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><br><br>What\u2019s required to turn \u201cquality improvement\u201d into \u201cimprovement science?\u201d Rigorous application of improvement methods and tools for sure. But the term \u201cscience\u201d has weight and invites scrutiny. This presentation will review and integrate key, practical elements of scientific improvement, including: precise theory and prediction; rigorous design and evaluation (respecting the influence of bias, confounding and other epidemiological factors on attribution and causality); behavioral and social sciences; information and network sciences; and qualitative and ethnographic methods.<br><br><strong>After this session, participants will be able to:<\/strong> <strong><br><\/strong><br>1. Understand and apply scientific methods beyond the Model for Improvement, Lean, and other improvement methods and tools<br>2. Design and evaluate improvement interventions to ensure that observed outcomes can be attributed to planned interventions<br>3. Plan and implement improvement projects that will withstand the scrutiny of other scientists<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/2018\/09\/20\/don-goldmann\/\">Don Goldmann<\/a>, Chief Scientific Officer, Emeritus, and Senior Fellow, IHI; USA<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/2019\/02\/19\/1111\/\">Sara Riggare<\/a>, advisor to the Swedish Medical Products Agency, advisor to the Swedish government\u2019s coordinator for Life Science","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 28 March15:00 &#8211; 16:00\u00a0 \u00a0What\u2019s required to turn \u201cquality improvement\u201d into \u201cimprovement science?\u201d Rigorous application of improvement methods and tools for sure. But the term \u201cscience\u201d has weight and invites scrutiny. This presentation will review and integrate key, practical elements of scientific improvement, including: precise theory and prediction; rigorous design and evaluation (respecting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/glasgow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}