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International Journal for Quality in Health Care Advance Access published online on August 23, 2007
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzm035
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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

Getting to the ‘roots’ of patient safety

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As noted recently within this journal, quality improvement evaluations need to be theoretically informed if they are to have meaning and value to service improvement [1]. The same is true of how we understand the sources of quality or, conversely, poor quality. Over the last 15 or so years there has been somewhat of a seismic shift in thinking about risk within healthcare. This can be found in health policies across the world articulated within the discourse of ‘patient safety’. However, questions should be asked about how far this approach, especially as it is practiced as a method of organizational . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Justin Waring

Medical Sociology and Health Policy,
School of Sociology and Social Policy,
University of Nottingham,
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
E-mail: jj_waring@hotmail.com, justin.j.waring@man.ac.uk


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