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Center for Health Care Improvement
Health Care Improvement Initiatives
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Collaboration
BHCS collaborates with other institutions and organizations focused on quality improvement through operational change and research, including:

The Leapfrog Group
The Leapfrog Group, in conjunction with the National Quality Forum, aims to improve patient safety and health care quality by publishing hospital performance survey results on recommended safety practices. The survey is based on the National Quality Forum's 30 Safe Practices.

View Leapfrog results for Baylor hospitals.

International Society for Quality in Health Care
From 2001 to 2003, David Ballard, MD, MSPH, PhD, FACP, Executive Director and BHCS Endowed Chair of the Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, served as President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), a non-profit independent organization with members in over 70 countries.

ACTION In 2004, BHCS joined the Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) initiative (formerly the Integrated Delivery System Research Network [IDSRN]) led by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in Research Triangle Park, NC.

The network was developed by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) to capitalize on the research capacity of and research opportunities within integrated delivery systems. Projects focus on quality initiatives and emphasize rapid-cycle testing and dissemination.

DEcIDE
In collaboration with the project's co-investigators from the RTI's Evidence Based Practice Center and ACTION, IHCRI was recently selected to participate in AHRQ's Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness (DEcIDE) Network.

The network's purpose is to create a collaborative research and practice-based program to assist AHRQ and other federal agencies in the development of new scientific knowledge regarding health care outcomes and services. Its goals are to develop new scientific evidence and analytic tools to assist healthcare providers in offering effective and appropriate services and to highlight the importance of information technology in raising standards of quality improvement.