Cambridge Elements: Improving quality and safety in healthcare (2022)

Summary

The Cambridge Elements series offers a comprehensive and authoritative set of overviews of different improvement approaches that can be applied to healthcare. Each publication explores the thinking behind them, examines evidence for each approach and identifies areas of debate.

Publications available include:

• Design creativity
• Values and ethics
• Statistical process control
• Approaches to spread, scale-up, and sustainability
• Health economics
• Governance and leadership
• Workplace conditions
• Reducing overuse
• Simulation as an improvement technique
• Implementation science
• Operational research approaches
• Making culture change happen
• Co-producing and co-designing
• Collaboration-based approaches
• The positive deviance approach