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The Tension between Needing to Improve Care and Knowing How to Do It
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The authors argue that interventions to improve health care quality should be held to the same standards that we apply to medical treatments. They believe quality-improvement initiatives should not be widely disseminated unless studies have demonstrated that they are safe and effective.
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“Health systems worldwide face the frustration of a mass of evidence repeatedly showing problems in the quality and safety of patient care, but much less compelling evidence on how such problems can be tackled effectively [1-3].”
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- Authors
- Auerbach, A. D., Landefeld, C. S., & Shojania, K. G.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2007-08-09
- Volume
- 357
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 608-613
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2095802448
- Cited by
- 411
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 73.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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