SQUIRE Guidelines for reporting improvement studies in healthcare: implications for nursing publications.

摘要

THERE are many Initiatives and interventions developed by nurses to improve the quality and safety of patient care, but often this work is not known beyond the nurses' own clinical setting. Nurses identify clinical problems and changes in practice that could improve care, propose new approaches and interventions, implement them, and evaluate changes in processes of care and outcomes related to the interventions. Few of these projects are published, and as a result nurses across settings need to continually develop their own strategies for improving care rather than building on the work of others. In reports about their improvement studies, nurses can describe problems they addressed, interventions they tried, and what they learned about the effectiveness of those interventions. Dissemination is critical not only to share this information with others who may have similar quality and safety problems in their clinical settings but also to contribute to nursing's evidence base. Experiences with initiatives and interventions that were not effective also should be disseminated because this information would be valuable to nurses who are considering implementing those same strategies in their settings.