Pharmacovigilance: Challenges in Getting From Here to There

Getting from here to there.

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Getting from Here to There

High-Reliability Health Care: Getting There from Here

CONTEXT Despite serious and widespread efforts to improve the quality of health care, many patients still suffer preventable harm every day. Hospitals find improvement difficult to sustain, and they suffer "project fatigue" because so many problems need attention. No hospitals or health systems have achieved consistent excellence throughout their institutions. High-reliability science is the st...

Finalizing PTSD in DSM-5: getting here from there and where to go next.

The process that resulted in the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association; ) was empirically based and rigorous. There was a high threshold for any changes in any DSM-IV diagnostic criterion. The process is described in this article. The rationale is presented that ...

Getting From Here to Accountable Care

Whether as an invited speaker, board member, or expert panelist, my frequent travels afford me excellent opportunities to observe how health care reform is unfolding on the ground in real time. After delivering a favorite lecture – Population Health: Is It the Secret Sauce? – this spring, I had the pleasure of hearing, and seeing first hand, how one midsize integrated health care delivery syste...