Quality Improvement Research

Richard Grol, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, The Netherlands.Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci , is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford. Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands.

• Contributors. 1 Quality Improvement Research: The Science of.Change in Health Care.2 Research Methods used in Developing and Applying Quality Indicators in Primary Care.3 Using Routine Comparative Data to Assess the Quality of Health Care.4 Qualitative Methods in Research on Healthcare Quality.5 Research on Patients' Views in the Evaluation and Improvement of Quality of Care.6 Systematic Reviews of the Effectiveness of Quality Improvement Strategies and Programmes.7 Research Designs for Studies Evaluating the Effectiveness of Change and Improvement Strategies.8 Evaluation of Quality Improvement Programmes.9 Methods for Evaluation of Small Scale Quality Improvement Projects.10 Designing a Quality Improvement Intervention: A Systematic Approach.11 Process Evaluation of Quality Improvement Interventions.12 Statistical Process Control as a Tool for Research and Healthcare Improvement.13 Value for Money of Changing Healthcare Services? Economic Evaluation of Quality Improvement.Index.