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Kelli I Stajduhar1, Darcee Bidgood, Leah Norgrove
1School of Nursing, Center on Aging, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. kis@uvic.ca
Abstract:
Quality improvement is an essential feature of the ongoing development of palliative care programs. Little has been written, however, about using quality improvement as a strategy to introduce research concepts to staff and administrators for the purpose of enhancing research readiness in healthcare settings. This article describes such an endeavor. The authors discuss two quality improvement initiatives undertaken by a palliative care program in Canada. These two examples demonstrate how the quality improvement process acted as a catalyst to enhance research readiness.
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