The Full Form of CQI is Continuous quality improvement.

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in Health Care is a structured organizational process that involves physicians and other personnel in planning and implementing ongoing proactive improvements in processes of care to provide quality health care outcomes. CQI is used by hospitals to optimize clinical care by reducing variability and reducing costs, to help meet regulatory requirements, and to enhance customer service quality. The issues of quality improvement gained additional national attention with the 2001 release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report titled Crossing the Quality Chasm in which the template was set for quality improvement processes. Pediatric hospitalists are well positioned to promote and champion CQI projects within the hospital setting, working on the front lines of clinical care and acting as influential change agents.