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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2007 19(6):329-333; doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzm053
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Society for Quality in Health Care; all rights reserved

Editorial

How international is the International Journal for Quality in Health Care?

E-mail: thomas.perneger@hcuge.ch

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The International Society for Quality in Health Care strives to ‘improve the quality and safety of healthcare worldwide through education, research, collaboration and the dissemination of evidence-based knowledge.’ The Society's Journal aims to contribute to this goal, particularly the dissemination of (worldwide) evidence-based knowledge. But do we really reflect an international perspective?

This is not simply an issue of formal adhesion to the society's values or of political correctness. Today's world can be described as a ‘global village,’ and increasing contact between peoples of diverse origins and backgrounds can have considerable positive value for science and development [1]. A number of efforts have been developed to specifically encourage a more global in perspective in health research [2, 3].

In the hard sciences, it could be argued that the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas V. Perneger1 and Patricia M. Hudelson2

1 Clinical Epidemiology Service and
2 Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland


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