The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement Is Transforming Medicine.

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The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement Is Transforming Medicine.

November 5, 2008

Kenney C. New York, NY: Public Affairs; 2008. ISBN: 9781586486198.

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This book traces the roots of the contemporary quality and safety movement to the quest to minimize medical error.

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