North Mississippi Medical Center: a focus on quality, safety, and financial critical success factors.

Joellen Murphree; Jan Englert; Karen Koch; Kenneth M Davis; John Heer

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North Mississippi Medical Center: a focus on quality, safety, and financial critical success factors.

October 12, 2005

Murphree J, Englert J, Koch K, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005;31(10):545-53.

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The winner of the 2005 American Hospital Association McKesson Quest for Quality Prize presents how they use a care-based cost management approach to address the six Institute of Medicine (IOM) quality aims and, in turn, improve safety.

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