Quality assessment of the literature on surgical quality improvement

Sacks, Olivia A.; Lambour, Andrew J.; Wilcox, Alison; Nammalwar, Shruthi; Wong, Sandra L.

doi:10.1016/j.surg.2019.05.016

Cited by 7 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The suboptimal quality of the articles included in this systematic review may be related to lack of knowledge and infrequent use of the SQUIRE guidelines. Although the implementation of SQUIRE guidelines has not been evaluated formally, in a review of surgical QI literature, it was reported that only 7% of articles cited SQUIRE guidelines (28). In our study, only 5.7% of the included studies published in 2009 or later declared the use of SQUIRE guidelines.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In our study, only 5.7% of the included studies published in 2009 or later declared the use of SQUIRE guidelines. Importantly, articles citing SQUIRE are not necessarily more concordant to the guideline statements than those that do not cite SQUIRE (28). Similarly, the quality of articles citing the SQUIRE guidelines in the current review was not significantly higher.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Quality Assessment of the Literature on Quality Improvement in PICUs: A Systematic Review

Inata

Nakagami-Yamaguchi

Ogawa

et al. 2021

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality Assessment of the Literature on Quality Improvement in PICUs: A Systematic Review

Inata

Nakagami-Yamaguchi

Ogawa

et al. 2021

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Articles were also evaluated for compliance with the Quality Improvement Minimum Quality Criteria Set (QI-MQCS) tool for evaluating QI publications, 14 19 where compliance was defined based on the number of elements met in this checklist. 7 Four team members individually scored five articles to achieve consistency in scoring, and the remaining articles were divided among three team members, with one member scoring each article. Project characteristics that were collected included primary setting (NICU, newborn nursery, intermediate care unit, or special care nursery), single-center versus multicenter project, types of outcomes (process measures, involving a system process change; patient measures, involving patient health outcomes; or cost measures, involving any cost outcome), types of interventions (family education, provider education, organizational change, technological change), duration of the intervention period, and analytic approach (statistical process control [SPC], prepoststatistical comparisons, multivariable regression).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 Historically, the scholarly impact of academic publications has been measured through citation counts, and, more recently, through measures such as Altmetrics, which incorporate news media and social media attention. 6 Few studies have assessed the scholarly impact of manuscripts describing QI projects, 7,8 and none have evaluated this within the Neonatology literature. Furthermore, it remains uncertain which characteristics of QI publications are associated with increased scholarly impact.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Scholarly Impact of Quality Improvement Reports in Neonatology

Sivadanam,

Teiko-Awere,

Tumin

et al. 2024

Am J Perinatol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objective Neonatology quality improvement (QI) projects can improve the safety and value of health care, but the scholarly impact of published QI projects is unclear. We measured scholarly citation and media attention garnered by published neonatology QI projects and analyzed project or publication characteristics associated with increased impact metrics. Study Design We identified publications between 2016 and 2019 using mapping review methodology. We correlated project characteristics with measures of scholarly citation in Scopus and Google Scholar, and media attention as measured by Altmetrics. We collected Citation and Altmetric data in 2023. Results The search identified 148 eligible articles, with a median citation count of 7 based on Scopus (or 12, based on Google Scholar) and a median Altmetric score of 2. Notably, 66% of articles published in a journal with an Impact Factor (IF) had more citations per year than would be expected from the IF value. Higher scientific citations were associated with articles reporting process and cost outcomes; implementing interventions that addressed family education or organizational change; and using regression analysis. Higher media attention was associated with multicenter projects, longer intervention periods, and projects scoring higher on the Quality Improvement Minimum Quality Criteria Set (QI-MQCS) rubric. Conclusion Published neonatology QI projects are well cited in subsequent scientific publications, with the choice of project outcome, interventions, and analytic strategy influencing citation metrics. Adherence to QI-MQCS guidelines was favorably associated with media attention, but not with scholarly citations. Key Points

show abstract

“…In Inata’s report, 6% of manuscripts referenced the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines, the current standard reporting template for quality improvement work (7, 8). Lamentably, among surgical QI manuscripts identified by Sacks et al, papers referencing SQUIRE do not follow the guidelines more often than manuscripts not referencing SQUIRE (9). These summary reports reveal most articles identified as QI work fail to use rigorous improvement methodology and fail to report the improvement work using accepted QI reporting templates (SQUIRE).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%