WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: April 19, 2012 Featuring: Donald Goldmann, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Dale Webb, PhD, Director of Evaluation and Strategy, The Health Foundation, UK Mary Dixon-Woods, BA, DipStat, MSc, DPhil, Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Leicester, UK Gareth Parry, PhD, Senior Scientist, Institute for Healthcare Improvement WIHI doesn’t need to travel all the way to Paris, France, to focus on challenges with the design and evaluation of improvement initiatives. But, four leading experts in this area are going to be sharing some of the latest thinking on this topic at the 17th annual International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare in Paris. WIHI host Madge Kaplan talks with these four presenters after their panel to share their observations with the WIHI audience. Here’s just a sample of what Don Goldmann, Dale Webb, Mary Dixon-Woods, and Gareth Parry want to cover:  Despite best intentions and commitment, improvement initiatives don’t always yield h