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The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

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The slogan for quality improvement is, simply, “all improvements involve changes but not all changes are improvements,” and ENM employs this model and method to teach providers in SBHCs to identify practice changes that will lead to improved patient care and help reduce health care costs.
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The article was published on 1996-11-13 and is currently open access. It has received 2544 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organizational performance.

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Building the learning health system: Describing an organizational infrastructure to support continuous learning

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Implementation of a multicenter performance improvement program for early detection and treatment of severe sepsis in general medical-surgical wards

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Practice-tailored facilitation to improve pediatric preventive care delivery: a randomized trial.

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