Once again, we consider how to effect practice change at the local and national levels. This
issue includes several articles that relate to quality improvement. Some physician actions …

The authors of this book believe that advocating for the status quo is unacceptable. The
assertion that we have “the best health system in the world” ignores copious statistical …

Sir Winston Churchill is quoted often to have said,“To improve is to change; to be perfect is
to change often.” Given this pithy observation, can we conclude that healthcare is certainly …

Donald Berwick (May/June 02), is an elegantly conceived and articulated house of cards. It
represents important new thinking about the structure and the future direction of health care …

Title: Improving patient care: the implementation of change in health care/edited by Michel
Wensing, Richard Grol, Jeremy Grimshaw. Description: Third edition.| Hoboken, NJ: Wiley …

Updates in Hospital Medicine Page 1 11/3/2021 1 DATE: November 13th, 2021 Updates in
Hospital Medicine James Anstey, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine OHSU Division of …

The current trends in American medicine can be characterized by a single word-more. We
are spending more money on health care than ever, over twice the amount spent 25 years …

We live in an age of great opportunity. Science, technology, and clinical findings have
provided a vast foundation of knowledge that physicians can draw on to make quality patient …

Donald Berwick (May/June 02), is an elegantly conceived and articulated house of cards. It
represents important new thinking about the structure and the future direction of health care …

MEDICINE STANDS out as an enterprise that consumes enormous resources, yet has
surprisingly little systematic monitoring of the quality of its output integrated into its …