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Pursuit Of Quality

PROLOGUE

The Pursuit Of Quality

PROLOGUE: The nation’s first National Healthcare Quality Report, released in the final days of 2003 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, reports measurable improvements in several indicators of quality. Major goals of the health care quality initiative—reducing medical errors, using evidence-based practices, improving systems for reporting errors, encouraging the use of electronic health information, and improving patient protections—are well known to those advocating improved health care quality. The report states that quality improvements have "come about not through mandates, but rather through innovation that is led by ‘champions’ with the vision to customize improvements to local circumstances." . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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