Taking action on inequities: a structural paradigm for quality and safety (30 April 2024)

Summary

Quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) practitioners aspire to improve care for all patients, caregivers and families using improvement methods. While teams are trained to carefully implement the science of improvement, less is known of how to effectively incorporate equity into QIPS work. In this editorial for BMJ Quality and Safety authors ask; should there be more projects focused specifically on equity, or should equity be embedded into all quality improvement?