Advancing Quality Improvement with Regression Discontinuity Designs

Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 May;15(5):523-529. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201712-942IP.

Allan J Walkey^{1

2

3}, Mari-Lynn Drainoni^{1

4

3

5}, Nicholas Cordella⁶, Jacob Bor^{7

8}

¹ 1 Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences.
² 3 Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
³ 2 Department of Health Law, Policy and Management.
⁴ 4 Section of Infectious Diseases, and.
⁵ 5 VA Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts.
⁶ 6 Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ 7 Department of Global Health, and.
⁸ 8 Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and.

No abstract available

Keywords: causal inference; quality improvement; research design.

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