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 - December 2009
14 Dec, 2009
Nancy Armistead, MPA is the Executive Director for the Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition.
Realizing the applicability to their work Nancy and colleagues attended SQUIRE training at IHI last year. Nancy then promoted SQUIRE at a Network training session, one of the Network physicians presented on SQUIRE as a model for development of our QI initiatives. As a result they have submitted a paper for publication using the SQUIRE Guidelines. Here are Nancy's answers to our three questions.
1. What have you found most interesting about SQUIRE
We appreciate the recognition that research and quality improvement are related but different activities, each with their own merits. We like that SQUIRE provides a framework for the design and reporting of QI projects which allows us to learn from a body of work that was not previously visible.
2. How has SQUIRE helped in writing about your improvement work?
Having a template is helpful in allowing several individuals to effectively work on the write up of a single project and brings consistency to our QI efforts. The framework assures that we're thinking about and addressing all salient components of our project thereby strengthening the overall project design, implementation and learning from experience.
3. Has SQUIRE influenced how you plan for future work?
One of our challenges is the use of evidence based interventions to guide our quality improvement initiatives. We intend to use SQUIRE in project planning, deployment and final reporting moving forward. Not all projects will result in publication, but we'll have comprehensive end of project reports to share with our review boards and funding agency, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. We'll use what we learn to plan new quality improvement initiatives.