Viewing health care delivery as science: challenges, benefits, and policy implications.

Peter Pronovost; Christine A. Goeschel

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Viewing health care delivery as science: challenges, benefits, and policy implications.

July 5, 2013

Pronovost P, Goeschel CA. Health Serv Res. 2010;45(5 Pt 2):1508-22.

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This commentary describes the barriers to improving national health care quality and makes recommendations for how to overcome them.

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