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Designing and implementing a comprehensive quality and patient safety management model: a paradigm for perioperative improvement.

February 15, 2011

Herzer KR, Mark LJ, Michelson JD, et al. J Patient Saf. 2008;4(2).

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This study describes a comprehensive model that combined incident reporting systems, a multidisciplinary team approach, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies to successfully identify captured defects, and then implement more than 90 quality improvement projects.

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