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Recurrent medical response problems during five recent disasters in the Netherlands.

Use of structured observational methods in disaster research: "Recurrent medical response problems in five recent disasters in the Netherlands".

Evaluation of medical command and control using performance indicators in a full-scale, major aircraft accident exercise.

Reducing disparities and improving quality: understanding the needs of small primary care practices.

Application of the Toyota Production System Improves Core Laboratory Operations.

Effectiveness of a clinical-decision-support system in improving compliance with cardiac-care quality measures and supporting resident training.

Perspective: Autonomic care systems for hospitalized patients.

Commentary: A call to leadership: the role of the academic medical center in driving sustainable health system improvement through performance measurement.

Clinic systems and the quality of care for older adults in residency clinics and in physician practices.

Has decentralized phlebotomy run its course?

People, Place, and Process: The Role of Place in Creating Optimal Healing Environments

Use of lean in the emergency department: a case series of 4 hospitals.

Capacity building is not an event but a process: lesson from health sector decentralization of Nepal.

[Synthetic Nursing Index. An instrument to measure correct self-management].

Strategies to reduce medication errors in older adults.

Nobody can look the other way.

Cost analysis of the Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders care management intervention.

Improvement education by improving education: a model for integration of teaching, learning and research while practice is improved.

Survey evaluation of the National Patient Safety Agency's Root Cause Analysis training programme in England and Wales: knowledge, beliefs and reported practices.

Measuring patient safety culture: an assessment of the clustering of responses at unit level and hospital level.