Quality Improvement Fundamentals

• Model for Improvement Overview (by Connie Davis)
• Quick Guide to the Collaborative Approach (by Connie Davis) 
•  Learning Communities (by Connie Davis)

Websites

• Academy for Healthcare Improvement (AHI)

AHI's mission is to improve health and healthcare delivery by advancing the scholarly and educational foundation of quality improvement in healthcare. More...



• Health Canada's Primary Health Care and Health System Renewal

Learn how high-quality, effective primary healthcare services have profound implications for the entire healthcare system. More...

• Healthcare Improvement Skills Center

Resource for clinicians to help close the gap between evidence-based best practice and what we are able to achieve on a daily basis for our patients. Includes learning modules for skills, methods, processes and techniques that have helped other healthcare professionals.



• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

IHI is a reliable source of energy, knowledge and support for a never-ending campaign to improve healthcare worldwide.  The Institute helps accelerate change in healthcare by cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those ideas into action. 



• Stanford Patient Education (US)

In the past 20 years or so, the Stanford Patient Education Research Center (formerly the Stanford Arthritis Center Education Office) has developed, tested and evaluated self-management programs for people with chronic health problems.



• University of British Columbia Primary Health Care - Center for Health Services & Policy Research (CHSPR)

Between 2003 and 2006, the British Columbia Ministry of Health supported a multistage CHSPR research program to plan and build capacity in province-wide, system-level primary healthcare evaluation.



• Vancouver Coastal Health Authority: Primary Health Care Network (PHCN)

A resource site to assist primary healthcare providers and health are administrators in the implementation of new models for primary healthcare delivery.



• Vancouver Island Health Authority: Primary Health Care Strategy

Primary healthcare involves providers working in teams to provide a range of everyday health services on a regular, ongoing basis to help people stay healthy and prevent injury, get better, manage illness or disease, and cope with the end of life.



• World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system, and is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.