Creating a business case for quality improvement research
Subtitle: expert views, workshop summary
By: Samantha Chao, rapporteur ; Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Contributors: Chao, Samantha.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780309116527
Subjects: Medical care -- United States -- Quality control -- Research; Quality of Health Care -- economics -- United States; Models, Economics -- United States; Research -- economics -- United States
Description: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the workshop "Creating a Business Case for Quality Improvement and Quality Improvement Research" on October 15, 2007, in Washington, DC, to develop a better understanding of the economic and business disciplines that encourage sustained efforts to improve the quality of health care.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 48).

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: The business case for quality improvement; title: The role of federal funders; title: Research as a driving force for change; title: Breakout groups; title: Communicating a value proposition.