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BioMed Central, Implementation Science, 1(9), 2014

DOI: 10.1186/s13012-014-0091-2

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Quality improvement collaboratives and the wisdom of crowds: spread explained by perceived success at group level

Journal article published in 2014 by Michel L. A. Dückers ORCID, Peter P. Groenewegen ORCID, Cordula Wagner
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Abstract Background Many studies have been conducted to evaluate the impact of quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) on the quality of healthcare. This article addresses an underexplored topic, namely the use of QICs as ‘intentional spread strategy.’ Its objective is to predict the dissemination of projects within hospitals participating in a change programme based on several QICs. We tested whether the average project success at QIC level (based on opinions of individual project team leaders) explains the dissemination of projects one year later. Findings After one year, 148 project team leaders of 16 hospitals participating in the two-year programme were asked to rate the success of their improvement project on a scale from 1 to 10. At the end of the second year, the programme coordinator of each hospital provided information on the second-year dissemination. Average success scores and dissemination statistics were calculated for each QIC (N = 12). The non-parametric correlation between team leader judgment and dissemination rate at QIC level is 0.73 (P