The "Quality Minute" a new, brief, and structured technique for quality improvement education during the morbidity and mortality conference. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The "Quality Minute" a new, brief, and structured technique for quality improvement education during the morbidity and mortality conference. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published July 2017

The "Quality Minute"—a new, brief, and structured technique for quality improvement education during the morbidity and mortality conference.

Hoffman RL, Morris JB, Kelz RR. JAMA Surg. 2017 July 17; [Epub ahead of print].

Time and schedule constraints can hinder efforts to investigate quality improvement in the practice environment. This commentary describes an innovation built on the mortality and morbidity conference concept that provides education and supports discussion of improvement opportunities in a time-efficient structured format.

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