Fixing healthcare from the inside: Teaching residents to heal broken delivery processes as they heal sick patients

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Spear, Steven J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33846013678     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200610001-00034     Document Type: Review

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