Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Literature

	Eight Knowledge Domains for Health Professional Students
	As part of IHI's early work to incorporate the teaching of quality improvement into health professions curricula, eight knowledge domains were identified as essential core content that all health professions students should learn as part of their training.

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Focus on performance: The 21st century revolution in medical education

Everyone involved in health care will need to understand that the experiential learning involved in improving their work is as much part of their job as doing that work. Sophisticated practice-based, performance-oriented learning programs will therefore be increasingly needed if medicine is to continue meeting one of its most fundamental professional obligations — namely, unceasing movement toward new levels of performance.

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	Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients' Care
	Check out Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients' Care by Linda Headrick, MD, and Gregory S. Ogrinc, MD, two of our very own IHI Open School Faculty Advisors. The book is available for purchase on the Joint Commission Resources website.

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	Medication Systems Literature – Expanded List on IHI.org
	The Medication Systems Literature section on IHI.org features a comprehensive list of books and peer-reviewed articles, chosen by IHI's content experts as some of the best available literature in a specific Topic or Subtopic. In addition, you will find stories that have appeared as features on IHI.org.

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	Navigating the Maze
	Have you ever left the doctor’s office in a rush without asking all of the questions you had? This brief article summarizes a few organizations’ method of guiding patients through their care. The article also explains how this approach to care provides benefits to patients and health care organizations.

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	Patient Safety Literature – Expanded List on IHI.org
	The Patient Safety Literature section on IHI.org features a comprehensive list of books and peer-reviewed articles, chosen by IHI's content experts as some of the best available literature in a specific Topic or Subtopic. In addition, you will find stories that have appeared as features on IHI.org.

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	Patient Safety Literature – Faculty Top Picks
	A selected bibliography of essential books and articles about patient safety in health care, categorized by major topics in the field.

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	Quality Improvement Literature – Expanded List on IHI.org
	The Improvement Methods Literature section on IHI.org features a comprehensive list of books and peer-reviewed articles, chosen by IHI's content experts as some of the best available literature in a specific Topic or Subtopic. In addition, you will find stories that have appeared as features on IHI.org.

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	Quality Improvement Literature – Faculty Top Picks
	A selected bibliography of essential books and articles about quality improvement in health care, categorized by major topics in the field.

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Quality improvement: How can we improve patients' care?

A group of health professions students from seven countries participated in the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, held April 2008 in Paris. Each day the students met to reflect on key topics discussed in the sessions they attended. This article provides a summary of some take-home lessons on topics such as improvement methodologies, effective teamwork and communication, and involving students early in quality improvement.

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	Teams in a community setting: The AUHS experience
	The article describes the Pennsylvania Local Interdisciplinary Team which was created to develop and implement an innovative model for the education of students from multiple backgrounds in quality improvement. The lead poisoning prevention project is presented as an example of the work of an interdisciplinary student team in a community setting in Philadelphia.

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	The Toxicity of Pay for Performance
	Should health care providers be paid on a merit basis? This article describes the complexity and shortcomings of a pay for performance system. The author addresses this system’s influence on customer needs, improvement opportunities, goals, and innovation.

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Trustworthy Leadership: Can We Be the Leaders We Need Our Students to Become?

This essay was originally delivered by Diana Chapman Walsh, former president of Wellesley College, at the "Leadership in Spirit Conference: How Colleges Prepare Students to Lead with Moral Purpose and Commitment" conference sponsored by the Institute on College Student Values held at Florida State University on February 5, 2005. In this essay, Walsh argues that we need "our graduates to become active participants in the world, potent advocates for human rights, confident leaders willing to take risks in pursuit of intellectual honesty, of freedom to disagree, of justice and fairness, global citizenship and mutual responsibility."

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