Standardized Best Practices and Individual Craft-Based Medicine: A Conversation About Quality.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.1641.
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Abstract
Standardization of medical care through protocols, order sets, and other tools is increasingly a part of efforts to improve quality. The authors, a physician beginning a new position as director of a community hospital quality program and the chief quality officer of a health care system and director of a course in health care delivery improvement, discuss the benefits and risks of standardization in health care. Recommendations for responsible standardization are presented.
Medical subject headings
- Communication
- Delivery of Health Care
- Hospitals, Community
- Quality of Health Care
- Thinking