General Medicine QI Priorities

The Division of General Internal Medicine agrees that its Quality Improvement Projects will be:

Important—Projects must be important to the University medical programs and of broad interest to the field of General Medicine.

Evidence-based—Projects must begin from a sound foundational review of relevant preceding work and must designed, powered, and executed to produce usable generalizable knowledge.

Feasible—Projects must be conceptually, temporally, geographically and informationally built to be able to answer the research question with the resources that are available to it.

Desirable to the researchers—The researchers must be personally and professionally committed to seeing the project through.

Publishable—Projects must be publishable because we are an academic health center whose goal is to produce knowledge and to support the professional development of our faculty.

Offer Potential for Collaboration—Projects must promote interdisciplinary and (where possible) interdepartmental collaboration because hospital-based health care is always a team effort.