SQUIRE (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) guides reporting of healthcare quality improvement studies.

Improve rigor and usefulness of quality improvement publications.

Who should use it

Clinicians and improvement scientists publishing QI work.

Recommended for healthcare quality improvement initiatives.

• Problem description
• Intervention and context
• Study design
• Measures and analysis
• Results and interpretation
• Limitations

• Local context described
• Intervention components detailed
• Outcome measures linked to aims

• Vague intervention description
• Missing contextual factors
• Weak linkage between measures and aims