BMJ 2006;332 (6 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7549.0-f
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Improving on improvement
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Last week, members of a small but increasingly confident tribe of healthcare enthusiasts gathered in Prague for their annual meeting, the Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. Run jointly by the BMJ Publishing Group and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (www.ihi.org/ihi), the forum is in its 11th year and, according to the feedback we've received, its best year yet.
Discussions in the sessions and over lunch—and through the evening in Prague's many bars—were wide ranging: what has happened to clinical leadership, what can happen when you learn to think like a designer, the importance of directly observing what goes on in hospitals and primary care, how to achieve sustainable change within a complex adaptive system, and whether quality improvement should be seen as research. There was also some eye opening gossip on who's on the way up and who's on the way out, or should be.
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