Transformational improvement in quality care and health systems: the next decade.

Jeffrey Braithwaite; Charles A. Vincent; Ezequiel Garcia-Elorrio; Yuichi Imanaka; Wendy Nicklin; Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey; David W. Bates

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Transformational improvement in quality care and health systems: the next decade.

November 25, 2020

Braithwaite J, Vincent CA, Garcia-Elorrio E, et al. BMC Med. 2020;18(1):340.

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Delivering high-quality, safe healthcare requires coordination and integration of complex systems and activities. The authors propose three initiatives to further practical opportunities for transforming health systems across the world – a country-specific blueprint for change, tangible steps to reduce inequities within and across health systems, and learning from both errors and successes to improve safe care delivery.

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