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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 5/2010

Open Access 01-05-2010 | From the Editors’ Desk

From the Editors’ Desk: Innovation and Improvement

Authors: Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH, Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 5/2010

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Legislation passes or fails. Prospects for health care reform wax and wane. Government initiatives (on patient safety, disparities, and now comparative effectiveness) come and, just as surely, go. In the meantime, this nation’s 50,000 general internists struggle to provide high quality care to their patients. Many succeed. But large national studies from RAND and elsewhere tell a different story. Delivering the right care, to the right patient, at the right time, every time, remains, in the aggregate, an elusive goal. …
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Title
From the Editors’ Desk: Innovation and Improvement
Authors
Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH
Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil
Publication date
01-05-2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 5/2010
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-010-1321-1

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