The moderate success of quality of care improvement efforts: three observations on the situation.

Tal Katz-Navon; Eitan Naveh; Zvi Stern

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The moderate success of quality of care improvement efforts: three observations on the situation.

February 14, 2007

Katz-Navon T, Naveh E, Stern Z. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2006;19(1).

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The authors look at high reliability, safety culture, and organizational learning as models for safety improvement efforts and discuss the challenges in applying them to health care.

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