National Priorities and Goals: Aligning Our Efforts to Transform America's Healthcare.

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National Priorities and Goals: Aligning Our Efforts to Transform America's Healthcare.

December 3, 2008

National Priorities Partnership. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2008. ISBN: 1933875194.

This report resulted from a consensus program involving 28 national organizations that sought to outline goals for improving the US health care system and share examples of such efforts in patient safety and other identified areas.

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