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Glasgow JM, Yano EM, Kaboli PJ. Impacts of organizational context on quality improvement. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 2013 May 1; 28(3):196-205.
Dimensions for VA is a web-based tool available to VA staff that enables detailed searches of published research and research projects. Variation in how hospitals perform on similar quality improvement (QI) efforts argues for a need to understand how different organizational characteristics affect QI performance. The objective of this study was to use data-mining methods to evaluate relationships between measures of organizational characteristics and hospital QI performance. Organizational characteristics were extracted from 2 surveys and analyzed in 3 separate decision-tree models. The decision trees did not find any predictive associations in this sample of 100 hospitals participating in a national QI collaborative. Further model review identified that measures of QI Experience were associated with an ability to make improvements, whereas measures of Staffing and Culture were associated with an ability to sustain improvements. A key area for future research is to understand the challenges faced as QI teams transition from improving care to sustaining quality and to ascertain what organizational characteristics can best overcome those challenges.
