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How Do Hospitals Deliver Safe, Effective and High Quality Care?

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This chapter explores how hospitals provide safe, effective and high quality care. The development and role of external review as a process to identify areas of good and poor practice is described. Amalgamated learning from hospitals which have areas of outstanding practice is reviewed along with examples and case studies.

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    Derek Burke

  2. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Sheffield, UK

    Prasad Godbole

  3. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK

    Andrew Cash

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Dobbs, P. (2019). How Do Hospitals Deliver Safe, Effective and High Quality Care?. In: Burke, D., Godbole, P., Cash, A. (eds) Hospital Transformation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15448-6_4

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