Translation of Evidence-Based Practice: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Using knowledge gained from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, health care management, and medical and health services research, the quality improvement movement attempts to mobilize people within the health care system to work together in a systematic way using evidence based strategies and tactics to improve the care they provide. In this valuable work, discipline-specific knowledge is combined with experiential learning and discovery to make improvements. Quality improvement provides a knowledge-based framework and methods for the change agent to work toward a more predictable, effective, efficient, reliable, equitable, patient-centered care health care system.