Quality assurance to continuous quality improvement: challenges for the medical staff.
Hospital medical staffs will have to make a major transition over the next few years from quality assurance to continuous quality improvement. As this article discusses, many elements of the change are new to health care, as yet untested, and should be approached carefully.
Zusman
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Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa.
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