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Explaining Michigan: developing an ex post theory of a quality improvement program

program design

Aveling EL, Bosk CL, Dixon‐Woods M.
GSID: AMJNSDNdwfYJ
M Dixon‐Woods, CL Bosk, EL Aveling… - The Milbank …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library

Context: Understanding how and why programs work—not simply whether they work—is crucial. Good theory is indispensable to advancing the science of improvement. We argue …

Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature

Build and Broaden 3.0 AND Program Evaluation

Dixon-Woods M, Martin G.
GSID: YC1XTmycbyQJ
M Dixon-Woods, S McNicol, G Martin - BMJ quality & safety, 2012 - qualitysafety.bmj.com

Background Formal evaluations of programmes are an important source of learning about the challenges faced in improving quality in healthcare and how they can be addressed. The authors aimed to integrate lessons from evaluations of the Health Foundation9s improvement...

Explaining Matching Michigan: an ethnographic study of a patient safety program

program design

Dixon-Woods M, Leslie M.
GSID: RAaSgrlFcugJ
M Dixon-Woods, M Leslie… - …, 2013 - implementationscience …

… of program design and execution; it was not an exact replica of the original project. Outer and inner contexts strongly modified the program’s … We propose that though the interventions ‘work,’ Matching Michigan did not fully work as...

Demystifying theory and its use in improvement

Science interventions

Dixon-Woods M.
GSID: g2bnVZwxqVsJ
F Davidoff, M Dixon-Woods, L Leviton… - BMJ quality & …, 2015 - qualitysafety.bmj.com

The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can …

Multimethod study of a large-scale programme to improve patient safety using a harm-free care approach.

BMJ open

Power M, Brewster L, Parry G, Brotherton A, Minion J, Ozieranski P, McNicol S, Harrison A, Dixon-Woods M.
PMID: 27660317
BMJ Open. 2016 Sep 22;6(9):e011886. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011886.

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to evaluate whether a large-scale two-phase quality improvement programme achieved its aims and to characterise the influences on achievement.SETTING: National Health Service (NHS) in England.PARTICIPANTS: NHS staff.INTERVENTIONS: The programme sought to (1) develop a shared national,...

Professionalism Redundant, Reshaped, or Reinvigorated? Realizing the "Third Logic" in Contemporary Health Care.

Journal of health and social behavior

Martin GP, Armstrong N, Aveling EL, Herbert G, Dixon-Woods M.
PMID: 26276676
J Health Soc Behav. 2015 Sep;56(3):378-97. doi: 10.1177/0022146515596353. Epub 2015 Aug 14.

Recent decades have seen the influence of the professions decline. Lately, commentators have suggested a revived role for a "new" professionalism in ensuring and enhancing high-quality health care in systems dominated by market and managerial logics. The form this...

The struck-off mystery.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Stokes T, McKinley RK, Dixon-Woods M.
PMID: 20895095
J R Soc Med. 1999 Nov;92(11):608. doi: 10.1177/014107689909201128.

No abstract available.

A mixed-methods study of challenges experienced by clinical teams in measuring improvement.

BMJ quality & safety

Woodcock T, Liberati EG, Dixon-Woods M.
PMID: 31446424
BMJ Qual Saf. 2021 Feb;30(2):106-115. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2018-009048. Epub 2019 Aug 24.

OBJECTIVE: Measurement is an indispensable element of most quality improvement (QI) projects, but it is undertaken to variable standards. We aimed to characterise challenges faced by clinical teams in undertaking measurement in the context of a safety QI programme...

How to improve healthcare improvement-an essay by Mary Dixon-Woods.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Dixon-Woods M.
PMID: 31575526
BMJ. 2019 Oct 01;367:l5514. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5514.

No abstract available.

Identifying how GPs spend their time and the obstacles they face: a mixed-methods study.

The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Sinnott C, Moxey JM, Marjanovic S, Leach B, Hocking L, Ball S, Georgiadis A, Lamé G, Willars J, Dixon-Woods M.
PMID: 34844920
Br J Gen Pract. 2021 Sep 22; doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2021.0357. Epub 2021 Sep 22.

BACKGROUND: Although problems that impair task completion - known as operational failures - are an important focus of concern in primary care, they have remained little studied.AIM: To quantify the time GPs spend on different activities during clinical sessions;...

Promotion of improvement as a science.

Lancet (London, England)

Marshall M, Pronovost P, Dixon-Woods M.
PMID: 23374480
Lancet. 2013 Feb 02;381(9864):419-21. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61850-9.

No abstract available.

Developing, validating and consolidating the doctor-patient relationship.

The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Dixon-Woods M, Stokes T.
PMID: 10198493
Br J Gen Pract. 1998 Nov;48(436):1788-9.
Free PMC Article

No abstract available.

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