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. 2019 Mar 21:364:l1039.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.l1039.

Can we import improvements from industry to healthcare?

Carl Macrae  1 , Kevin Stewart  2
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Can we import improvements from industry to healthcare?

Carl Macrae et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Healthcare has more to learn from other industries, including aviation—but it’s more complex than we think argue Carl Macrae and Kevin Stewart

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that CM has previously been employed as a researcher-in-residence at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch.

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