{"id":17881,"date":"2025-07-14T12:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/?page_id=17881"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:32:04","slug":"continuous-quality-improvement-cqi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/evaluation\/continuous-quality-improvement-cqi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom-driven Evaluation &#038; Continuous Quality Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; max-width: 850px; margin: auto; padding: 20px; background-color: #f9f9f9; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\">\n<h2 style=\"color: #8b0000; text-align: center;\">WE-CQI:\u00a0Wisdom-driven Evaluation<br \/>\n&amp; Continuous Quality Improvement<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"color: #444; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\"><em>Empowering Team Science Through Reflection &amp; Learning<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><span>Grounded in principles of team science, we use the<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/public-health\/articles\/10.3389\/fpubh.2025.1581205\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #993366;\">Wisdom-driven Evaluation and Continuous Quality Improvement (WE-CQI)<\/a><\/span><\/strong> <span>approach to support programs in embedding evaluation and continuous improvement directly into their activities. WE-CQI is a practical, theory-based framework designed to help Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) programs improve the quality and impact of their initiatives.Our framework incorporates Plan-Do-Study-Act\u2019s iterative improvement cycle, aligns with the Breakthrough Series and Kaizen approaches by emphasizing collaborative learning, team-based reflection, and valuing incremental and practical improvements, and uses the Logic Framework by incorporating logic models to support structured problem-solving. Unlike CQI models with more rigid and linear steps (e.g., FADE, DMAIC), our approach is designed to be flexible and adaptive to dynamic team environments, such as multi-team complex systems like CTSAs.The WE-CQI model follows a three-step cycle (Figure 1): <strong>Collaborative Planning<\/strong>, where diverse team members co-create improvement strategies; <strong>Shared Action<\/strong>, where teams jointly implement those strategies; and <strong>Team Reflection &amp; Learning<\/strong>, where inclusive dialogue and data are used to assess progress and refine the next steps.This flexible, evidence-informed approach fosters meaningful participation, continuous learning, and ultimately, greater public health impact.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ctsi\/files\/2025\/07\/WE-CQI-636x424.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"706\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/files\/2025\/07\/WE-CQI-636x424.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/files\/2025\/07\/WE-CQI-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/files\/2025\/07\/WE-CQI-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/files\/2025\/07\/WE-CQI.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE-CQI:\u00a0Wisdom-driven Evaluation &amp; Continuous Quality Improvement Empowering Team Science Through Reflection &amp; Learning Grounded in principles of team science, we use the Wisdom-driven Evaluation and Continuous Quality Improvement (WE-CQI) approach to support programs in embedding evaluation and continuous improvement directly into their activities. WE-CQI is a practical, theory-based framework designed to help Clinical and Translational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16447,"featured_media":0,"parent":895,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18485,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17881\/revisions\/18485"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}