A health care agenda for business

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 56-64

  Berry, Leonard L ^a   Mirabito, Ann M ^b   Berwick, Donald M ^c,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mays School   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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1. Problems with the system are well documented in the health policy and medical literatures. For several comprehensive sources of Information, see Institute of Medicine, "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001); D.M. Berwick, "Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care" (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003); and M.R. Chassin, E.L. Hannan and B.A. DeBuono, "The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 1999" (Lebanon, New Hampshire: Dartmouth Medical School, 1999).
2. Problems with the system are well documented in the health policy and medical literatures. For several comprehensive sources of Information, see Institute of Medicine, "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001); D.M. Berwick, "Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care" (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003); and M.R. Chassin, E.L. Hannan and B.A. DeBuono, "The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 1999" (Lebanon, New Hampshire: Dartmouth Medical School, 1999).
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