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Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It

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Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It
Abstract/Description
Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It collects 16 speeches given over a period of 10 years by Donald M. Berwick, an internationally acclaimed champion of health care improvement throughout the course of his long and storied career as a physician, health care educator and policy expert, leader of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These landmark speeches (including all of Berwick’s speeches delivered at IHI’s annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care from 2003 to 2012) clearly show why our medical systems don’t reliably contribute to our overall health. As a remedy he offers a vision for making our systems better – safer, more effective, more efficient, and more humane.

Each of Berwick’s compelling speeches is preceded by a brief commentary by a prominent figure in health care, policy, or politics who has a unique connection to that particular speech. Contributors include such notables as Tom Daschle, Paul Batalden, and Lord Nigel Crisp. Their commentaries reflect on how it felt to hear the speech in the context in which it was delivered, and assess its relevance in today’s health care environment. The introduction is by Maureen Bisognano, CEO of Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and author of Pursuing the Triple Aim.
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Date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Resource type
en
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en No
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-118-79588-0
Citation
Berwick, D. M. (2013). Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It. John Wiley & Sons.

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