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Conducting a dissonant symphony; NQF is working to bring more healthcare players into harmony on quality.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 05-APR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 862 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Conducting a dissonant symphony; NQF is working to bring more healthcare players into harmony on quality.(Opinions-Commentary)(National Quality Forum)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Kenneth Kizer

The quality of American healthcare is neither as good as generally believed nor as good as it could and should be given the vast resources we spend on it. In response to the now clearly identified quality problem, many improvement initiatives have been launched by accreditation bodies, business coalitions, government, medical specialty societies, professional associations and quality-improvement organizations. Indeed, in the past decade, a whole industry of healthcare quality improvement has been born.

These efforts are well meaning but uncoordinated, and an observer might describe them as bearing a striking resemblance to Brownian motion, the random movement of small particles in fluid. There is no question about the good intentions of the many efforts under way, but the disparate initiatives are too often unfocused and...

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