The Dissemination, Implementation, and Continuous Quality Improvement (DICQI) team at Wake Forest University School of Medicine aims to drive excellence in translational science through rigorous evaluation and continuous quality improvement. They use implementation and evaluation findings to engage leaders in critical analysis and strategic thinking to address potential gaps and consider higher-order questions about future directions while ensuring CTSI activities meet research needs, enhance translational science, and improve healthcare outcomes.
DICQI Activities
An essential function of evaluation, and one that complements the functions of monitoring, strategic learning, testing, and providing evidence of a program’s scientific output and influence, as well as clinical, community, economic, and policy benefits.
Provide support, resources, and consultation on best-practices for dissemination of knowledge about projects supported by CTSI services and their resulting outputs such as scientific products and publications.
Provide consultation on implementation study design; integration of theories, models, and frameworks; implementation planning; qualitative and mixed methods research; stakeholder engagement; and participatory research.
Will be an online data resource characterizing our clinics and hospitals according to features (i.e. structural aspects, aggregate patient characteristics, prior experience in research and health system improvement, readiness to change) that are likely to impact adoption, implementation, and sustainment of new care strategies.
Support efforts of the Clinical and Academic Oversight Council (CAOC) to prioritize potential aLHS projects and to identify efficacious practices and policies that are ripe for implementation.
Work with the CAOC and clinical service lines to establish a cadre of Embedded Scholars (i.e., methodologically trained investigators who work within a service line to improve care delivery and whose effort is supported by a mix of health system and external funding).