Improving Quality Improvement Collaboratives: Mixing Communication Media to Attain Multiple Measures of Success

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Author(s): Priscilla A. Arling (Butler University, USA), Edward J. Miech (Regenstrief Institute, USA)and Greg W. Arling (Purdue University School of Nursing, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 12
Source title: Design, Development, and Integration of Reliable Electronic Healthcare Platforms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anastasius Moumtzoglou (P&A Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1724-5.ch014

Keywords: Medical Information Science Reference / Medical Technologies / Medicine & Healthcare

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For several decades, researchers have studied the comparative effects of face-to-face and electronic communication. Some have claimed that electronic communication is detrimental to outcomes while others have emphasized its advantages. For members of healthcare quality improvement (QI) collaboratives, a mix of both of types of communication is often used, due to geographical dispersion. This chapter examines the outcomes of a specific QI collaborative, the Empira Falls Prevention project in Minnesota, USA. Levels of electronic communication between collaborative members were found to be associated with a positive patient outcome, specifically a reduction in falls. Electronic and face-to-face communication differed in their association with success measures for the collaborative. The findings suggest that the two modes of communication can be leverage to attain maximum benefits from participating in a quality improvement collaborative.

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