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SUBMITTER: Pronovost PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2965889 | biostudies-other | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pronovost Peter J PJ Goeschel Christine A CA
Health services research 20100802 5 Pt 2
The need for health services research is likely to rise rapidly as the population ages, health care costs soar, and therapeutic and diagnostic choices proliferate. Building an effective and efficient health care delivery system is a national priority. Yet the national health care quality report concludes that we lack the ability to monitor progress toward even basic quality and patient safety goals effectively. The gap between the need to improve and our ability to do so exists in part because w ...[more]