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A Shared Vision of Healthcare Quality Improvement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Birnbaum  and
Health Care Quality Special Interest Group
David Birnbaum*
Affiliation:
Health Care Quality Special Interest Group
*
Applied Epidemiology, 609 Cromar Rd, RR1, Sidney, British Columbia V8L 5M5, Canad
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Abstract

SHEA and the American Society for Quality's Health Care Division have been collaborating in areas of common concern to improve healthcare quality. We each possess a heritage of different but complementary approaches and stand a better chance of success together than apart. This presentation describes rapid growth of our interdisciplinary, international, special interest group and progress made thus far, as well as challenges facing hospital epidemiologists and quality improvement professionals.

Type
SHEA Symposium III
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 9 , September 2001 , pp. 582 - 584
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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