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In the late 1990s, treatment-related deaths or “complications” were the fifth leading cause of death for Americans. Spurred by the crisis, a group of dedicated physicians like Paul Batalden and Don Berwick made it their goal to study the concepts of “quality improvement” used at Toyota and NASA, and to apply them to the practice of medicine. This book tells their story, and how these “heretical” ideas have blossomed into a movement, bringing the focus back to where it should have always been: the patient.
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- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: PublicAffairs; Reprint edition (March 9, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1586487973
- ISBN-13: 978-1586487973
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 5.4 x 8.2 inches
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Free The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine
This is my favorite example of a visionary solution since reading How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business by Hubbard. Kenney's work would have been a great example for Hubbard and Hubbard's methods would have solved many of the challenges of Donald Berwick and Paul Batalden, the heroes of The Best Practice.
Whether the average patient can tell it or not, the quality of health care is improving measurably thanks largely to a passionate devotion of Berwick and Batalden to their cause. The biggest surprise for me in the book is how even a culture as entrenched as medicine can start to change its ways when quality becomes a quantity that is measured and used as a yardstick for improvement. Champions of the quality control methods W.E. Demming developed for other businesses, Berwick and Batalden decide to implement standards of quality already known in other professions to perhaps the profession perhaps most resistant to objective measurement. And we are all better off for it.
By Bill Gossett
Very readable, but greatly simplified overview of the health care quality improvement movement. Takes as its center the vision of Don Berwick's Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Unfortunately, while a central tenet of the quality movement is that depending upon heroic performance of individuals is a way to ensure error and mistake, the book takes a heroic approach to the movement itself painting the leading lights as paragons. Doesn't dig deep enough to offer an account of the inertia of healthcare and our nation's failures of cost and quality.
By C. Langston
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