Crossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings
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Crossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings
Over the last decade, extensive scientific and policy innovations have begun to reduce the "quality chasm"--the gulf between best practices and actual implementation that exists in resource-rich medical settings. While limited data exist, this chasm is likely to be equally acute and deadly in resource-limited areas. While health systems have begun to be scaled up in impoverished areas, scale-up...
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عنوان ژورنال: Globalization and Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1744-8603
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-8-41