Multifocal Clinical Performance Improvement Across 21 Hospitals
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Multifocal Clinical Performance Improvement Across 21 Hospitals
Improving quality and safety across an entire healthcare system in multiple clinical areas within a short time frame is challenging. We describe our experience with improving inpatient quality and safety at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. The foundations of performance improvement are a "four-wheel drive" approach and a comprehensive driver diagram linking improvement goals to focal area...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal for Healthcare Quality
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1062-2551
DOI: 10.1111/jhq.12039