J Lynn, MA Baily, M Bottrell, B Jennings, RJ … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians Quality improvement (QI) activities can improve health care but must be
conducted ethically. The Hastings Center convened leaders and scholars to
address ethical requirements for QI and their relationship to regulations ... Cited by 65 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
C Grady - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians Quality improvement (QI) activities and human subjects research have each made
significant contributions to the improvement of health care. Many argue that QI
differs from human subjects research in its purpose and scope. Quality ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
MA Baily - New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 - content.nejm.org Editor's Note: On February 15, 2008, after this article had gone to press, the
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) issued a statement (www.hhs.gov/
ohrp/news/recentnews.html#20080215) expressing its new conclusion that ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►gotoknow.org [PDF] FG Miller, EJ Emanuel - The New England journal of medicine, 2008 - nejm.highwire.org As for the first question, the IRB determined that the quality- improvement
initiative was ex- empt under a provision applying to “research involving the
collec- tion or study of existing data, documents, records, pathological ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►ajph.org E Bellin, NN Dubler - American Journal of Public Health, 2001 - Am Public Health Assoc Historically, quality assurance studies have received scant ethical attention.
The advent of information systems capable of supporting research-grade
continuous quality improvement projects demands that we clearly define how ... Cited by 51 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
F Davidoff, P Batalden - Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2005 - qshc.bmj.com In contrast with the primary goals of science, which are to discover and
disseminate new knowledge, the primary goal of improvement is to change
performance. Unfortunately, scholarly accounts of the methods, experiences, ... Cited by 101 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 20 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org TV Perneger - International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2004 - ISQHC Let us redefine the nature of health care. Much of health care would amount to
reckless endangerment or even to bodily harm if it were not covered by the tacit
covenant between patient and doctor (think of surgery or chemotherapy). ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►wustl.edu [PDF] B Lo, M Groman - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2003 - archinte.highwire.org Quality improvement (QI) may substantially improve patient outcomes while posing
little risk to subjects. However, the term quality improvement is used to refer
to a broad range of projects, which vary widely in the potential benefits ... Cited by 35 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
A Gawande - New York Times, 2007 - faculty.chass.ncsu.edu A year ago, researchers at Johns Hopkins University published the results of a
program that instituted in nearly every intensive care unit in Michigan a simple
five-step checklist designed to prevent certain hospital infections. It ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 2 versions
