Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Peter Lachman M.D. MPH. M.B.B.Ch., FRCPCH, FCP (SA), FRCPI is Lead Faculty Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin, where he directs the Leadership and Quality programme to develop clinical leaders in quality improvement.He was Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) from 1st May 2016 to 30th April 2021. He was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI in 2005-2006 and developed the quality improvement programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was the Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety. He was also a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children. He is the lead editor of the OUP Handbook on Patient Safety published in April 2022; and Co-Editor of the OUP Handbook on Medical Leadership and Management published in December 2022.

• 1: Introduction to quality in healthcare2: Challenges for quality improvement3: Improvement science4: Implementation science and quality improvement5: Equity and quality improvement6: Sustainable quality improvement7: Economics of quality improvement8: Coproducing health and person centred care9: Standards in healthcare10: The lens of psychology11: How to make change happen12: Appreciation of systems13: Understanding variation14: Lens of knowledge15: Strategies for measurement16: Measurement of person centred care17: Application of quality improvement - preparing your quality improvement project18: Application of quality improvement - next steps19: Quality improvement, research, ethics and publishing20: Resource hyperlinks

... this is an up-to-date and comprehensive book on quality improvement in healthcare. It would be ideal reading for healthcare providers seeking to upskill on quality improvement or for quality improvement practitioners who wish to have all the key information on both theories and tools together in one place.