Is money spent on quality improvement better spent on clinical care? — Yes

Millar, J Alasdair

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03147.x

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Physician Alasdair Millar believes that QI siphons resources for little return and threatens health

YES Quality improvement (QI) is now a dominating influence in health care. The overall aims are good: to ensure patient safety, avoid errors and achieve optimum health “outcomes”. Who would dare criticise? I argue that clinical QI practice is failing to satisfy its ostensible aims and is a threat to health.

Southland Hospital, Invercargill, NZ.

Correspondence: alasdair.millar@sdhb.govt.nz

Competing interests:

None identified.

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