What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review.

Deborah E. White; Sharon E. Straus; Tom Stelfox; Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc; Chaim M. Bell; Karen Jackson; Jill M. Norris; Ward Flemons; Michael E. Moffatt; Alan J. Forster

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What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review.

November 16, 2011

White DE, Straus SE, Stelfox T, et al. Implement Sci. 2011;6:97.

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While a growing number of descriptions of quality and safety teams have been published, this review found that the existing literature base has serious methodological flaws.

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