Advancing Quality Improvement Research: Challenges and Opportunities is a summary of a workshop held by the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation.  The focus of the workshop was to bring people together from various arenas to discuss quality improvement—what it is, what barriers against it must be overcome in the health care industry,  and  what research has been done on it.   

Although there is a broader scope of issues pertaining to this subject, the summary is limited to the presentations and discussions during the workshop itself.