Quality improvement reports: a new kind of article

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7274.1428

BMJ 2000;321:1428 ( 9 December )

Editorials

Quality improvement reports: a new kind of article

They should allow authors to describe improvement projects so others can learn

Education and debate p 1460

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Today we publish our first quality improvement report (p 1460).¹ It shows how a group from Paris managed to improve themanagement of pain in patients after surgery by switching themearly from intravenous to oral acetaminophen. The report usesa structure (box) that we have copied with permission from thejournal Quality in Health Care.² One of the best ways to improveyour journal $---$ or anything $---$ is to keep scanning your environmentfor good ideas and then copythem.

Those who work in quality improvement in health care have a poor record in publishing their articles. This may be becausethey are too busy to publish or because journals won't accepttheir submissions. But it might be because reports on improvementprojects are hard to write and because the traditional structureof scientific articles (IMRAD: introduction, methods, results,and discussion) is unfriendly to such reports. Structure is . . . [Full text of this article]

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Quality improvement report: Effect of multifaceted intervention promoting early switch from intravenous to oral acetaminophen for postoperative pain: controlled, prospective, before and after study: Claire Ripouteau, Ornella Conort, Jean Paul Lamas, Guy-Robert Auleley, Georges Hazebroucq, and Pierre Durieux
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