Researchers identified nearly 9,000 original research articles on quality improvement concepts from a search of 10 medicine- and business-oriented databases. An analysis of article volume and content showed:
• Volume of healthcare quality improvement articles began to increase significantly 22 years ago, in 1991.
• “Continuous quality improvement” was the most common study topic across the years.
• Lean methodology, or how to provide value as efficiently as possible, was the topic with the greatest growth in volume since the early 1990s.
• “Total quality management” was the only methodology to decline in publication volume over time.
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