- ►annals.org TW Nolan - Annals of internal medicine, 1998 - Am Coll Physicians The prominence of physicians in highly interdependent medical systems confers tremendous
power on them, individually and as a profession.With this power comes an ethical responsibility
to be deeply concerned about medical systems. Examples of medical systems include the ... Cited by 112 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
CM Kilo - Pediatrics, 1999 - Am Acad Pediatrics The opportunity to improve health care using existing scientific knowledge is immense. Much
is known that is not being used in routine care, leading to a large gap between knowledge and
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RJ Wall, RS Dittus, EW Ely - CRITICAL CARE-LONDON-, 2001 - biomedcentral.com Advances in patient management in the ICU have led to reductions in the morbidity and mortality
suffered by critically ill patients [1]. As with medicine in general, continued improvements in ICU
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authorities. In Canada, these authorities are variously known as regional health boards or
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- ►angrylapdog.com A Garland - Chest, 2005 - chestjournal.org.p.angrylapdog.com ICUs are a vital but troubled component of modern health-care systems. Improving ICU performance
requires that we shift from a paradigm that concentrates on individual performance, to a
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SB Ransom, DM Studdert, MP Dombrowski, … - Obstetrics & …, 2003 - journals.lww.com Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan; Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann
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V Weber, MS Joshi - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and …, 2000 - ingentaconnect.com W hy is understanding change crucial to implementing quality improvement (QI) initiatives? Health
care, perhaps more than any other type of organization or industry in the United States, has undergone
dramatic changes in the past several decades. During this time, there has been an ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
M Weinberg, JM Fuentes, AI Ruiz, FW … - Archives of internal …, 2001 - archinte.highwire.org You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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DB Larson, M Chandler, HP Forman - Academic Medicine, 2003 - journals.lww.com Purpose. Managerial sciences are playing an increasingly prominent role in the organization
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T Bodenheimer, L Casalino - New England Journal of Medicine, 1999 - content.nejm.org Top-level medical directors spend a substantial proportion of their time on quality
improvement. This activity has grown in importance as a result of the rise to prominence of the
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