title: Charting the future of healthcare improvement.
abstract: Healthcare improvement must become a function of systems--hospitals, delivery systems and communities--to overcome inequities in care and to make quality as much a priority as financial success, according to Don Berwick, MD, CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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authors.lastname: Berwick
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States