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4 Priorities for Change
Pages 25-28

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... No conclusions identifying top priorities were drawn during the session. INTERVENTION-LEVEL PRIORITIES As discussed in the previous chapter, how a quality improvement intervention is implemented may be equally important as what quality improvement interventions "work." However, little is known about which interventions are effective.
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From page 26...
... It was noted that measures of health care must be standardized. Currently measures are defined in a variety of ways (e.g., some measures of breast cancer care include women aged 40–60, while others include women aged 35–55)
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From page 27...
... One person argued that health care is full of incompletely characterized problems. One way of determining the opportunity for 1 Inthis usage, S-shaped curve refers to the shape of the line when rate of spread versus time is graphed: rate of spread is initially low, quickly rises, has an inflection point, and levels out over time.
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... What is not "perfect" is the opportunity for change. Thinking in this manner could help provide discipline in characterizing problems and finding solutions.
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