Systematically Identified Failure Is the Route to a Successful Health System.

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Systematically Identified Failure Is the Route to a Successful Health System.

March 9, 2016

Tepper J, Martin D, eds. Healthc Pap. 2015;15(2):4-61.

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Identifying and addressing organizational factors that enable individual missteps can generate lasting improvements. Exploring challenges to system-level efforts to learn from failure in health care, articles in this special issue discuss the importance of evaluation as a learning strategy, prioritization of improvement efforts, and leadership engagement to initiate innovation.

Table of contents

Introduction

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