Restoring trust in VA health care.

Kenneth W. Kizer; Ashish K. Jha

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Restoring trust in VA health care.

June 11, 2014

Kizer KW, Jha AK. N Engl J Med. 2014;371(4):295-297.

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In response to a recent investigation raising concerns about inaccurate reporting of wait-time data, this commentary relates barriers to improving patient safety, such as overuse of performance measures. The authors describe approaches to augment safety, such as narrowing down performance measures to address the most significant concerns and engaging private health care organizations in improvement projects.

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