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Quality Improvement

Quality improvement is a systematic, data-driven approach to making healthcare safer, more effective, more efficient, and more responsive to patients by continuously analyzing and improving the processes through which care is delivered. Rather than attributing shortcomings to individuals, it examines the systems and…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 49× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2640-690X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Quality improvement is a systematic, data-driven approach to making healthcare safer, more effective, more efficient, and more responsive to patients by continuously analyzing and improving the processes through which care is delivered. Rather than attributing shortcomings to individuals, it examines the systems and workflows that produce outcomes, using structured methods to identify problems, test changes on a small scale, measure their effects, and spread successful practices. Common frameworks include iterative plan-do-study-act cycles and conceptual models that distinguish the structure, process, and outcome dimensions of care, such as the Donabedian model used to evaluate quality in healthcare facilities. Quality improvement initiatives rely on clearly defined measures, reliable data systems, and feedback to track performance over time and to verify that interventions yield genuine gains. In primary and Family Medicine, the breadth and continuity of patient relationships make practices well suited to improvement work targeting screening, chronic disease and obesity management, preventive services, and care coordination, while in broader clinical and public-health settings projects address areas such as monitoring systems, multidisciplinary care pathways, and the reduction of adverse events. By emphasizing measurement and ongoing learning, quality improvement complements clinical research and helps translate evidence into reliable practice. Its aim is to close the gap between current and achievable performance, improving patient outcomes, experience, and equity.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Post Mastectomy Pain is No Longer Nightmare

Ali M. Elzohry AlaaCorresponding author
Department of Anesthesia, ICU and Pain Relief, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University.
Family Medicine Cited by 16 doi:10.14302/issn.2640-690X.jfm-17-1900

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 49 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Quality Improvement, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Family Medicine (ISSN 2640-690X).

Journal editorial board
Dr. John P. Bartkowski · United States Dr. Angela Pia Cazzolla · Italy Dr. Ian James Martins · Australia

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