Jake Mickelsen, Director, Performance Improvement, Stanford Health Care

EQuIP India, a program that offers quality improvement (QI) education and mentoring to clinical project teams providing cancer care in India, is spreading across India in a remarkable way.  The program’s most recent publication showcases how they have done it and what learnings they have incorporated.

“Quality of care outcomes depend not only on the clinical interactions between clinicians and patients but also on the effective alignment and integration of team efforts, logistics, and care processes,” the authors write. They describe how India’s National Cancer Grid, with its mandate to facilitate and promote quality standards in patient care across India, facilitated QI training to help clinical teams develop improvement skills and methodology, ultimately strengthening the quality of cancer care processes across the country.

This program supports clinical teams in addressing complex patient care issues felt across the country. Many thanks to Nandini Vallath and the EQuIP India leadership team for including Stanford on this journey.  We continue to learn so much from this program.

The image below shows the many areas participating in EQuiP India — some of which have created QI project hubs of their own to continue the trainings locally.

To learn more about this and other QI international collaboratives, visit PAICE Global.