About the VIQI Core
The Vanderbilt Implementation and Quality Improvement (VIQI) Core promotes rigorous evaluation of initiatives to implement evidence-based practice and improve the quality, safety, and value of healthcare delivery. We provide consultation services as a component of the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research (CCQIR), comprised of faculty and staff with expertise in a wide array of methodological areas in improvement and implementation science. Dr. Amanda Mixon serves as the Director of the VIQI Core.
Consultation Services Offered
- Implementation science: theories and frameworks, barriers/facilitators, strategies, outcomes
- Improvement science: QI frameworks and tools
- Study design (including hybrid designs, quasi-experimental and pragmatic clinical trials)
- Selection of appropriate measures and metrics
- Mixed methods program evaluation
- Systems-level process change (process mapping)
- Data visualization
- Grant and manuscript preparation
Request Services
To assist us in determining your needs, please complete the VIQI Core Services request form: https://redcap.link/VIQIcoreRequest
We will contact you for an initial consultation at no charge. The VIQI Core operates under a collaborative core model in which services are charged as effort to your funding source.
VIQI Core Director | VIQI Core Manager |
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| Amanda S. Mixon, MD, MS, MSPH, FHM | Robyn Tamboli, PhD |
| Associate Professor of Medicine | Research Program Manager |
| Division of General Internal Medicine | Center for Clinical Quality and |
| Section of Hospital Medicine | Implementation Research |
| amanda.s.mixon@vumc.org | robyn.tamboli@vumc.org |