Programs

Resources

Access key tools, guides, and links that support quality improvement, patient safety, scholarship, and reporting across UT Southwestern. This page brings together the most frequently used resources for learners, faculty, and project teams.

QI Basics Primer

Access the QI Basics Primer, a foundational resource designed to introduce learners to essential quality improvement (QI) principles in healthcare. This edition provides an accessible overview of why quality matters, the Model for Improvement, understanding systems and variation, measurement fundamentals, PDSA cycles, change concepts, reliability science, human factors, and the impact of teamwork and organizational culture on safe patient care.

How to Publish

Explore key resources to support writing, structuring, and submitting scholarly Quality Improvement (QI) work. These tools help learners and faculty prepare manuscripts that meet publication standards and identify journals that commonly publish QI studies.

SQUIRE 2.0 Guidelines

Use the SQUIRE 2.0 framework to structure QI manuscripts in a clear, rigorous, and publishable format.

QI Conferences

Explore leading national and international Quality Improvement (QI) and Patient Safety conferences where healthcare professionals, learners, and researchers gather to share best practices, present project outcomes, and advance improvement science.