SQUIRE Guidelines
The guidelines are available in several formats.
- SQUIRE Guidelines is an online resource for authors, reviewers, and editors that provides an overview of the items in the SQUIRE checklist.
- SQUIRE Guidelines checklist in PDF is available for downloading.
- SQUIRE Explanation and Elaboration (E&E) is a series of web pages for authors, editors, and reviewers that provides one or more example(s) for each of the items in the SQUIRE checklist. Each example from existing literature is accompanied by a detailed explanation of how that item may be addressed in a manuscript.
- Explanation and Elaboration (E&E) in PDF is available for downloading from Quality and Safety in Healthcare.
Recent News
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."