The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine
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- Synopsis
- In the late 1990s, treatment-related deaths or "complications" were the fifth leading cause of death for Americans. Spurred by the crisis, a group of dedicated physicians like Paul Batalden and Don Berwick made it their goal to study the concepts of "quality improvement" used at Toyota and NASA, and to apply them to the practice of medicine. This book tells their story, and how these "heretical" ideas have blossomed into a movement, bringing the focus back to where it should have always been: the patient.
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 336 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780786741670
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781586486198
- Publisher:
- PublicAffairs
- Date of Addition:
- 06/18/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Charles C. Kenney
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Medicine
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.