This funding is to lead an initiative to reduce childhood obesity and its associated poor health outcomes in the Birmingham area. It is common for those who have suffered a stroke to overestimate ...

The UAB School of Nursing’s Quality Improvement Scholars fellowship offers Doctor of Nursing Practice faculty members the opportunity to work with quality and safety research faculty to ultimately ...

The theory and tools of "improvement science" have produced performance improvements in many organizational sectors. This essay describes improvement science and explores its potential and challenges ...

For more than 25 years, IHI has used improvement science to advance and sustain better outcomes in health and health systems across the world. IHI brings awareness of safety and quality to millions, ...

A science of improvement (Berwick 2008) undergirds the efforts of our networked communities. Each network seeks to design and test effective interventions while generating learning about how these ...

The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector. Going back decades, many states, systems and institutions have enacted sweeping policy changes and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Would you be surprised if I told you feedback can hurt performance? Nearly three decades ago ...

Robert Fenton is the founder and CEO of Qualio, a cloud-based quality management system (eQMS) for life sciences teams. The medical products that save lives every day pass through a critical layer of ...

Self-improvement can involve improving any aspect of the self—for example, personal qualities, skills, and even the roles we play (like husband or wife and son or daughter). When we start thinking ...