TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kenney, Charles
TI  - The best practice : how the new quality movement is transforming medicine
SN  - 1586487973
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Public Affairs
KW  - MEDICAL ERRORS, prevention and control
KW  - QUALITY ASSURANCE,  HEALTH CARE
KW  - QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
KW  - QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
N2  - Includes bibliographic references (p. 287-294) and index; Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth. Treatment-related deaths or complications were found to be the fifth leading cause of death for Americans, and hundreds of thousands of patients were being harmed by botched medical procedures. Spurred by the quality crisis, a group of visionary physicians led by Donald Berwick and Paul Batalden embarked on a study of industrial quality improvement techniques, daring to apply them to the practice of medicine despite resistance from the medical community. The Best Practice tells the story of this burgeoning movement, and of how the medical landscape is being radically transformed--for the better
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