Arguably the greatest achievement of academic health services research of the last half-century has created its greatest unmet challenge. The achievement is to have documented beyond doubt the widespread defects in health care, even in wealthy systems. The challenge is to discover what we need to know that we do not now know in order to create much more effective systems of care.
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Donald M. Berwick (2005) studied this question.
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