Achieving quality in hospital practice
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Managing quality in hospital practice.
BACKGROUND While routine clinical decision-making has a substantial effect on quality, most practising physicians do not routinely examine their outcomes. OBJECTIVES To set up a practical process for identifying problems in hospital practices of primary care physicians, examine their causes, and develop a quality improvement process that intimately involves practising physicians in problem-so...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.1.suppl.17