Quality measures: bridging the cultural divide

"Reforms to the NHS in England, currently underway, that involve devolution of budgets to local clinical groups, and a stronger role for regulators, cannot succeed in establishing accountability for the assurance of the quality and safety of care, nor the stewardship of very large amounts of tax-payers’ money, without credible data."

Quality measures: bridging the cultural divide
LJ Donaldson, A Darzi
BMJ Quality and Safety, 21:969-972

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