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How Does Hospital Quality Management Drive Quality? Results From the "Deepening Our Understanding of Quality Improvement (DUQuE)" Project.

May 21, 2014

Schneider EC, ed. Int J Qual Healthc. 2014;26(suppl 1):1-115.

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Articles in this special supplement explore preliminary findings of a comprehensive investigation into quality improvement efforts (QI) in European hospitals to reveal the measurement, policy, and data collection needs required to successfully track progress. Topics include discussions about a checklist to assess quality activities during patient care, variation of best practice adoption between hospitals and countries, and implementation of patient engagement strategies.

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