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QIOs support local hospital improvement efforts

Quality Improvement Monitor, April 21, 2005

Quality management directors generally view quality improvement organizations (QIOs) as helpful when it comes to improving hospital care and as having helped overcome the "punitive" role of the peer review organizations that came before them, according to a new study from the Yale School of Medicine.

Researchers conducted interviews with 100 quality management directors from a randomly selected cross-section of all acute care hospitals operating in 2001. More than 90% of the hospitals reported that QIOs had initiated specific interventions, often providing educational materials, benchmark data, and hospital performance data. Sixty percent of respondents said QIO interventions were "helpful" or "very helpful."

Elizabeth Bradley, an associate professor at the department of epidemiology and public health at Yale, led the study, which was published in the April <i>Health Services Research</i>.

"The generally positive view among most hospital quality improvement directors concerning the QIO interventions suggests that QIOs are potentially poised to take a leading role in promoting quality of care," the authors said. 

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