Improving healthcare quality through organisational peer-to-peer assessment: lessons from the nuclear power industry.

Peter Pronovost; Daniel W. Hudson

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Improving healthcare quality through organisational peer-to-peer assessment: lessons from the nuclear power industry.

September 26, 2012

Pronovost P, Hudson DW. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21(10):872-5.

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Exploring the benefits of peer review in the nuclear power industry, this commentary recommends that an organizational peer review program be developed to identify system issues and help clinicians learn from each other.

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