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. 2008 Jan 12;336(7635):74-6.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39413.486944.AD.

On the trail of quality and safety in health care

Richard Grol  1 , Donald M Berwick, Michel Wensing
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On the trail of quality and safety in health care

Richard Grol et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Initiatives to improve patient care have had only limited success. Richard Grol, Donald Berwick, and Michel Wensing call for steps to encourage a new generation of researchers to investigate how to speed up progress

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Competing interests: None declared.

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