| Notes to Authors |
| • The SQUIRE guidelines provide a framework for reporting new knowledge about how to improve healthcare.
• The SQUIRE guidelines are intended for reports that describe system level work to improve the quality, safety, and value of healthcare, and used methods to establish that observed outcomes were due to the intervention(s).
• A range of approaches exists for improving healthcare. SQUIRE may be adapted for reporting any of these.
• Authors should consider every SQUIRE item, but it may be inappropriate or unnecessary to include every SQUIRE element in a particular manuscript.
• The SQUIRE Glossary contains definitions of many of the key words in SQUIRE.
• The Explanation and Elaboration document provides specific examples of well-written SQUIRE items, and an in-depth explanation of each item.
• Please cite SQUIRE when it is used to write a manuscript. |
| Title and Abstract |
| 1. Title | Indicate that the manuscript concerns an initiative to improve healthcare (broadly defined to include the quality, safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, cost, efficiency, and equity of healthcare) |
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| 2. Abstract | a. Provide adequate information to aid in searching and indexing
b. Summarize all key information from various sections of the text using the abstract format of the intended publication or a structured summary such as: background, local problem, methods, interventions, results, conclusions |
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| Introduction | Why did you start? |
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| 3. Problem Description | Nature and significance of the local problem |
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| 4. Available Knowledge | Summary of what is currently known about the problem, including relevant previous studies |
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| 5. Rationale | Informal or formal frameworks, models, concepts, and/or theories used to explain the problem, any reasons or assumptions that were used to develop |
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