Quality improvement for the ESRD community.
As an introduction to this issue of Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, fundamental principals of quality improvement ar described, with examples for the dialysis unit, and critical differences between quality assurance and quality improvement are explained.
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Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, CA 92123, USA.
D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D017582:Renal Replacement Therapy