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Comment
. 2022 Feb 28;194(8):E311-E312.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220134.

What problems in health care quality should we target as the world burns around us?

Kaveh G Shojania  1
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Comment

What problems in health care quality should we target as the world burns around us?

Kaveh G Shojania. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Kaveh Shojania has received salary support from the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and the Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. No other competing interests were declared.

Comment on

  • Inappropriate use of clinical practices in Canada: a systematic review.
    Squires JE, Cho-Young D, Aloisio LD, Bell R, Bornstein S, Brien SE, Decary S, Varin MD, Dobrow M, Estabrooks CA, Graham ID, Greenough M, Grinspun D, Hillmer M, Horsley T, Hu J, Katz A, Krause C, Lavis J, Levinson W, Levy A, Mancuso M, Morgan S, Nadalin-Penno L, Neuner A, Rader T, Santos WJ, Teare G, Tepper J, Vandyk A, Wilson M, Grimshaw JM. Squires JE, et al. CMAJ. 2022 Feb 28;194(8):E279-E296. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.211416. CMAJ. 2022. PMID: 35228321 Free PMC article.

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