What we know about designing an effective improvement intervention (but too often fail to put into practice). | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

What we know about designing an effective improvement intervention (but too often fail to put into practice). | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published December 2016

What we know about designing an effective improvement intervention (but too often fail to put into practice).

Marshall M, de Silva D, Cruickshank L, Shand J, Wei L, Anderson J. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017;26:578-582.

Improvement projects are complicated endeavors that often face obstacles to achieving their goals. This commentary outlines lessons learned by a team that implemented a multifaceted safety intervention for patients living in care homes to provide insights for other improvement teams seeking to design and test approaches to augment safety.

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