Simon C Mathews, Renee Demski, Jody E Hooper, Lee Daugherty Biddison, Stephen A Berry, Brent G Petty, Allen R Chen, Peter M Hill, Marlene R Miller, Frank R Witter, Lisa Allen, Elizabeth C Wick, Tracey S Stierer, Lori Paine, Hans A Puttgen, Rafael J Tamargo, Peter J Pronovost
As quality improvement and patient safety come to play a larger role in health care, academic medical centers and health systems are poised to take a leadership role in addressing these issues. Academic medical centers can leverage their large integrated footprint and have the ability to innovate in this field. However, a robust quality management infrastructure is needed to support these efforts. In this context, quality and safety are often described at the executive level and at the unit level. Yet, the role of individual departments, which are often the dominant functional unit within a hospital, in realizing health system quality and safety goals has not been addressed...
May 2017: Academic Medicine