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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 16:263 (2004)
International Journal for Quality in Health Care vol. 16 no. 3 © International Society for Quality in Health Care and Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Letter to the Editor

There is nothing wrong with the concept of a root cause

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To the Editor: Dr Donald Berwick, president and CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, recently discussed in the Washington Post the failure of hospitals to reduce medical errors. There is much to agree with in this editorial [1]. However, one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Jan S. Krouwer

Krouwer Consulting, Sherborn, MA, USA


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