Vanderbilt opens Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Precision Medicine

Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced the launch of its Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research, which will investigate clinical quality improvement strategies that address prevention, diagnostics and therapeutics in clinical care as well as the organization of a care delivery system.

Housed within the Institute for Medicine and Public Health’s Center for Health Services Research, the center will conduct research and assist Vanderbilt teams with the design implementation and evaluation of clinical quality and safety initiatives, according to Reporter, a VUMC publication.

The center also will sponsor an implementation science research forum open to faculty, staff and students, and a research support core will be developed for VUMC groups that may want to engage dedicated services from the center, according to the article.

Laura Pedulli

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