open QITools
Collaborative tools for the conduct and teaching of clinical quality improvement
Searching for QI studies
The goals of your lit searching
You have three goals from your lit search:
- Does the QI measure need refinement? For example, CMS allows UAs to screen for DM nephropathy. Do you agree?
- Rate of achieving the goal that we should aim for. Eg what is typical and best practice?
- Details at Benchmarking
- How to achieve the goal (QI implementation)? For examples, should we use CDSS, should we use emails to patients, other ideas?
PubMed can provide additional help for all three of these searching needs
Use the modified McMaster filter (Wilczynski 2010; Hempel, 2011) below.
This example searches for benchmarks for hypertension from Kaiser Permanente.
Replace or omit the yellow text as needed.
(Health Services Administration[major] OR quality) AND (improv* OR enhance* OR increase*) AND (intervention* OR initiative* OR strategy* OR program* OR Process* OR strateg* OR implement*)
AND
(hypertension[title] OR hypertension[major])
AND
Kaiser[title/abstract]
You have three goals from your lit search:
- Does the QI measure need refinement? For example, CMS allows UAs to screen for DM nephropathy. Do you agree?
- Rate of achieving the goal that we should aim for. Eg what is typical and best practice?
- Details at Benchmarking
- How to achieve the goal (QI implementation)? For examples, should we use CDSS, should we use emails to patients, other ideas?
PubMed can provide additional help for all three of these searching needs
Use the modified McMaster filter (Wilczynski 2010; Hempel, 2011) below.
This example searches for benchmarks for hypertension from Kaiser Permanente.
Replace or omit the yellow text as needed.
(Health Services Administration[major] OR quality) AND (improv* OR enhance* OR increase*) AND (intervention* OR initiative* OR strategy* OR program* OR Process* OR strateg* OR implement*)
AND
(hypertension[title] OR hypertension[major])
AND
Kaiser[title/abstract]
This example searches for benchmarks for hypertension from Kaiser Permanente.
Replace or omit the yellow text as needed.
-
(Health Services Administration[major] OR quality) AND (improv* OR enhance* OR increase*) AND (intervention* OR initiative* OR strategy* OR program* OR Process* OR strateg* OR implement*)
AND
(hypertension[title] OR hypertension[major])
AND
Kaiser[title/abstract]
- If insufficient results, consider
- Removing the title/abstract constraint for the institution of interest, or
- Removing the institutional term completely