title: Performance improvement: a topic whose time has come--again.
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Stiefel
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards*; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States