Writing to Improve Healthcare: An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publication

Quality improvement has become a part of medical practice, certification, and education, and if you are looking for advice on how to introduce your findings and interventions to your departments or to publish them, look no further than David P Stevens’s Writing to Improve Healthcare: An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publication. Although traditional scientific research in medicine adheres to standards and methodology in scholarly publication, publication of quality improvement and innovations is less established. The dissemination of quality improvement research and analysis helps the medical community stay current in knowledge of innovation, provide positive health outcomes, and decrease waste in health services. In Writing to Improve Healthcare, Stevens proclaims that health care improvement is incomplete until it is published, and he provides a unique guide to publication for this new category of writers