Taking the quality challenge: highlights from the AHRQ summit.
When it comes to quality in healthcare delivery, much has emerged about best practices-backed up by scientific data. But the results still are not there, the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Carolyn Clancy, MD, said at a recent healthcare quality summit sponsored by the agency. Instead, the healthcare community has to challenge itself to do better.
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