Redesigning the system from the bottom up: Lessons learned from a decade of federal quality improvement collaboratives

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 3 SUPPL, 2012, Pages 11-20

  Harris, Yael ^a   Kwon, Linda ^a   Berrian, Amber ^a   Calvo, Ahmed ^a  

^a HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakthrough series collaborative; Quality improvement; Quality measurement; Systems redesign

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864685888     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0145     Document Type: Note

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