Quality Improvement in Practice Project

Member organizations approved the establishment of a Quality Improvement in Practice paper competition in collaboration with the Journal of the American College of Radiology. In 2005, the network announced a worldwide competition for original manuscripts dealing with the topics of quality improvement in radiology and medical imaging practices. A new competition will occur each month among manuscripts received during the prior month, with the winning manuscript being published in a special section of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). The competition is intended to:

• Increase the awareness of the importance of quality improvement in the work place;
• Enable radiology practices to learn from others and apply other practices' quality improvement experience to their own practice; and
• Facilitate a cultural change in radiology practices so that quality improvement forms an integral part of day-to-day practice rather than perceived as an unnecessary add-on burden.

The IRQN has assembled a Panel of experts to judge monthly manuscript submissions. The Panel will work with the winning authors and the Editor-in-Chief, JACR to edit and improve winning manuscripts prior to their publication.

A Certificate of Merit will be awarded to each month’s winning author(s). At the conclusion of each year, the Panel will select an annual winner who will receive a cash award of US$1,000. The network acknowledges the generous sponsorship of this cash award by The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. In 2007, the winner was Dr. Lucy Glenn with her article on “Labeling Defects in Radiology” which was published in the October issue of the JACR.

Potential articles should conform to JACR’s ‘Instructions for Authors’ for either 'review' or 'research' articles. These instructions are published in each issue of JACR or may be found on the JACR web site: www.jacr.org. Please submit your manuscripts directly to the IRQN Secretariat: irqn@ranzcr.edu.au

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