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Quality Improvement Research: Understanding The Science of Change in Health Care

ISBN: 978-0-727-91640-2

November 2003

BMJ Books

240 pages

Description
Quality improvement in health care is now a stated objective of health services worldwide, yet effective delivery is not always apparent. This book discusses research methods that should help to improve the delivery of quality.
About the Author

Richard Grol, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, The Netherlands.

Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci , is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford. Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Features
Quality improvement in health care is now a stated objective for health services worldwide yet effective delivery is not always apparent. This book discusses research methods that will help to improve the delivery of quality. With chapters by internationally respected workers in the field, this book is an important contribution to the quality improvement initiative.