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Conducting Quality Improvement Research

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Quality improvement (QI) is part of any emergency physician’s career. This chapter outlines basic concepts of QI, describes tools and instruments commonly used in QI, and discusses how QI projects can become QI research to advance the care of patients in Emergency Departments.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA

    Christopher J. Wilson, Mark F. Olaf & Judy B. Shahan

  2. Department of Critical Care, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA

    Eric M. Melnychuk

  3. Department of Emergency and Hospital Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

    Chadd K. Kraus

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Correspondence to Chadd K. Kraus .

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  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Robert P. Olympia

  2. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elizabeth Barrall Werley

  3. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Lubin

  4. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

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Wilson, C.J., Olaf, M.F., Melnychuk, E.M., Shahan, J.B., Kraus, C.K. (2023). Conducting Quality Improvement Research. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_81

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