Quality Improvement Projects

Why publish your QI work?

• Forces clarification, verification and justification
• Hastens the spread of useful strategies / innovations
• Keeps others from unnecessarily repeating mistakes
• Contributes to the “collective memory”
• Returns value to those who did the work
• Holds you publicly accountable for your efforts

 

• Do not refer to QI projects as “research” in publications or presentations.
• If the project was not submitted to the IRB for determination, the following statement may be included in the manuscript: “This project was undertaken as a Quality Improvement Initiative and as such does not constitute human subjects research.”
• If the project was reviewed by a research compliance office and was determined not to be human subjects research, the following statement can be included in the manuscript: “This Quality Improvement Initiative was reviewed and determined to not meet the criteria for human subjects research by the [institution].”