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Editorial
. 2011 Feb 3:342:c6646.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6646.

Is quality of care improving in the UK?

Peter J Pronovost, Sean M Berenholtz, Laura L Morlock
Editorial

Is quality of care improving in the UK?

Peter J Pronovost et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Yes, but we do not know why

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: no support from any organisation for the submitted work; PJP and SMB have received grants or had contracts with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the World Health Organization, the Michigan Health and Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality, NIH/NHLBI, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, JHPIEGO, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the past three years; PJP has been a paid consultant for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, received speaking honorariums and travel expenses from various hospitals and the Leigh Speaker’s Bureau, and received royalties from his book Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

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