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Quality assessment, assurance made easier.

Unit-based teams get results at Penn.

Care for children undergoing surgery: we are not there yet.

Study shows Keystone program achieved significant savings.

Improving safety culture results in Rhode Island ICUs: lessons learned from the development of action-oriented plans.

TJC readies new performance standard.

Kaiser Permanente's performance improvement system, part 3: multisite improvements in care for patients with sepsis.

[Role of the physician in the case of death out-of-hospital].

Quality. Awash with good ideas.

At long last ... pay for outcomes starts to replace pay for performance.

Enriching patient-centered care in serious illness: a focus on patients' experiences of agency.

Medical education.

Meaningful HIT aids frontline caregivers. New strategies for successful implementation.

Predictors of accuracy of diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice.

Approved: New hospital standard sets performance expectations for ORYX accountability measures.

Advantages of the dental practice-based research network initiative and its role in dental education.

Mislabeling of cases, specimens, blocks, and slides: a college of american pathologists study of 136 institutions.

Care portals: enhancing the value of private duty home care through technology.

[Surgical infections as patient safety problems].

Deviations from protocol in a complex trauma environment: errors or innovations?