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The SQUIRE Guidelines help authors write excellent, usable articles about quality improvement in healthcare so that findings may be easily discovered and widely disseminated. The SQUIRE website supports high quality writing about improvement through listing available resources and discussions about the writing process

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A listing of journals (with links) that have published articles about the development of SQUIRE, refer to the SQUIRE guidelines for authors, or have formally adopted them as editorial policy.

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Three Questions … A Quick Glimpse Into WHO is Using SQUIRE and WHY

09 Jun, 2009

Linda A. Headrick, M.D., M.S., Helen Mae Spiese Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Faculty Development, Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine has had a long history of working on the front lines of care to improve systems for patients. We asked Linda three questions about SQUIRE and this is what she had to say.

1. What have you found most interesting about the SQUIRE Guidelines?
"I was able to conduct a detailed comparison and contrast of an early (non-SQUIRE) publication on QI in health care with a recent publication that used the SQUIRE Guidelines. The results were extremely helpful and highlight why SQUIRE is so effective. I was able to take this comparison and presented it during a talk in Jonkoping, Sweden, in May of 2009. It was a huge success."

2. Please explain how the guidelines have been helpful in writing about your improvement work
"In using the SQUIRE Guidelines we were able to describe the details of HOW QI was used to improve the process & outcomes of our work and demonstrate the particular CONTEXT in which the change was achieved in addition to the results of the project itself. It gave our paper much more depth as a QI paper."

3. Have the SQUIRE Guidelines influenced how you plan for future improvement work? Please explain.
"Oh Yes, the SQUIRE Guidelines highlight details about the context and the development of the intervention. They are also helpful if an author or group wishes to look at the results of a QI initiative to determine if they want to implement it in their own environment. I foresee using some aspect of the guidelines in my future papers."

From the SQUIRE Blog:

Separation

22 Jun, 2009

Although I enjoy my job, there are things that make it hard to work in a non-academic setting.  The first is that "access to information isn't free" and the second is that "honest feedback is hard to find".  I recently learned…MORE...

Ethics and The IRB

01 Jun, 2009

Memorial Day The Friday before Memorial Day Weekend, I sat in on a meeting hosted by the VA Quality Scholars program.  I was invited because the topic was ethics and the meeting organizers thought that I might be interested.  I was.…MORE...

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