Journal Venues for Quality Improvement: 2021 Update

The dissemination of well-designed quality improvement/patient safety (QI/PS) interventions advances scientific knowledge and patient care. Publications in quality improvement require an integration of existing knowledge to support a diversity of theories, strategies, and contexts.¹ There are excellent guidelines available to standardize reporting quality improvement interventions^{2, 3} and critically assess the validity of the contributions.¹

Promotion guidelines at professional schools require scholarship productivity. While the forms of scholarship productivity vary between graduate and postgraduate schools, publishing original work in high profile peer-review venues remains a cornerstone of academic achievement. As an example, chairs of medicine viewed QI/PS work favorably for promotion, especially when scholarly productivity is demonstrated.⁴ However, identifying suitable journal venues and audiences is sometimes challenging.

In this report, we update a list of peer-reviewed journal venues for quality improvement indexed in Medline.⁵ We hope the list will facilitate the dissemination of QI/PS work: The message is “publish your QI/PS work.” We acknowledge that the list is incomplete and other forms of scholarship of dissemination are available.