The Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQuIRE)
The Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQuIRE) guidelines are the international writing guidelines for quality improvement publications. The guidelines provide a framework for reporting new knowledge about how to improve healthcare. They are intended for reports that describe system level work to improve the quality, safety, and value of healthcare, using a range of methods to establish the association between observed outcomes and intervention(s). Following the publication the inaugural SQuIRE guidelines (SQuIRE 1.0) in 2008, the guidelines were revised and published in 2015 as SQuIRE 2.0. These updated guidelines aimed to reflect the dynamic nature and the wide variety of approaches used in healthcare improvement efforts.
CQuIPS Assumes Oversight of SQuIRE
In October 2023, the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) became the stewards of SQuIRE. CQuIPS is committed to ensuring the guidelines are relevant and reflective of the ever-evolving field of quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS).
Click here to learn more about CQuIPS' work to enhance the guidelines and their dissemination
SQuIRE 3.0 Revision
It has been over a decade since the last update of the guidelines which led to SQuIRE 2.0. To ensure SQuIRE is meaningful in the current QIPS sphere, an evidence-informed initiative to update the current SQuIRE guidelines, to SQuIRE 3.0 has begun. Click here to learn more
New SQuIRE Extension: SQuIRE-SIM
SQuIRE-SIM provides standards for reporting simulation-specific elements in improvement research. Click here to learn more
Embedding equity in QI
Equity in action: a scoping review and meta-framework for embedding equity in quality improvement in BMJ Quality & Safety. Click here to view the article
SQuIRE-related presentation
SQuIRE 3.0 Update co-leads Drs. Kaveh Shojania and Leahora Rotteau will be presenting “Evidence informed recommendations to enhance SQuIRE” at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare in Utrecht, The Netherlands May 21-23, 2025. Click here to view the conference information