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Quality improvement (QI) is the framework used to improve care on a system level. Unlike research, which seeks to gain knowledge, QI focuses more on implementation of interventions known to be effective.
For example, suppose you would like a better way to identify patients who have sensory only strokes to decrease the amount of unnecessary MRI's and admissions. You do a literature search and realize that there is currently no good clinical framework and decide to perform a study. That is research.
Now, suppose your study finds a constellation of symptoms that are good at ruling out acute stroke. You then decide to implement an MRI checklist for sensory only symptoms to reduce the number of unnecessary MRI's performed. That would be considered QI.
You can turn your QI project into a scholarly project by collecting data, for example the positivity rate of MRI pre and post implementation of your checklist. This would also then satisfy your scholarly project as well.
To be sure your project would satisfy either your QI or scholarly activity requirement or both, be sure to discuss it with your mentor or program director or research director.
The form for the QI project proposal can be accessed by clicking the link.
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