Improving the quality of health care in Canada

Affiliations

¹ Health Quality Ontario (Dhalla, Tepper); Department of Medicine (Dhalla) and Department of Family and Community Medicine (Tepper) and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Dhalla, Tepper), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Dhalla, Tepper), Toronto, Ont. Irfan.Dhalla@hqontario.ca.
² Health Quality Ontario (Dhalla, Tepper); Department of Medicine (Dhalla) and Department of Family and Community Medicine (Tepper) and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Dhalla, Tepper), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Dhalla, Tepper), Toronto, Ont.

Irfan A Dhalla et al. CMAJ. 2018.

. 2018 Oct 1;190(39):E1162-E1167.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.171045.

¹ Health Quality Ontario (Dhalla, Tepper); Department of Medicine (Dhalla) and Department of Family and Community Medicine (Tepper) and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Dhalla, Tepper), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Dhalla, Tepper), Toronto, Ont. Irfan.Dhalla@hqontario.ca.
² Health Quality Ontario (Dhalla, Tepper); Department of Medicine (Dhalla) and Department of Family and Community Medicine (Tepper) and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Dhalla, Tepper), University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital (Dhalla, Tepper), Toronto, Ont.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Irfan Dhalla and Joshua Tepper both report that they are salaried employees of Health Quality Ontario.

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