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About this series

The past decade has seen enormous growth in both activity and research on improvement in healthcare. This series offers a comprehensive and authoritative set of overviews of the different improvement approaches available, exploring the thinking behind them, examining evidence for each approach, and identifying areas of debate.

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Elements in this series

Mary Dixon-Woods introduces the series


What you can expect from the series
  • Comprehensive: covering a wide range of approaches, including models, techniques, major tools and methods, organising structures and strategies.
  • Evidence-based: sets out the evidence for how each approach has been used and to what effect, but without advocating for the approach or acting as a how-to guide.
  • Scholarly: written by over 60 academic and clinical experts in healthcare improvement from over 40 organisations in the UK, Canada, France, Australia, and the USA.
  • Robust: thorough editorial and peer-review process to ensure the content is accurate, accessible, and engaging.
  • Open access: freely available online (under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence).

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THIS Institute is boosting research activity to provide clarity on what works in improving healthcare, what doesn’t, and why. Their highly inclusive approach combines academic rigour with the real concerns of patients and healthcare staff. THIS Institute brings people together to understand problems, create shared visions, co-design solutions, and evaluate them.

Key areas of interest
  • Healthcare 
  • Improvement 
  • Quality 
  • Patient safety
  • Staff experience

Interdisciplinary areas of interest

• Health services research
• Evidence-based healthcare
• Evaluation
• Social science 
• Law
• Ethics
• Engineering
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Allied health professionals