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Driving Improvements: Quality Management in the ICU

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Evaluating Critical Care

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 35))

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Modern hospitals are extremely complex organizational bodies. They combine three distinct professional cultures: physicians, nurses, and administrators who all live up to different role models, and they are divided into traditionally well defended territories of specialized services having their own, sometimes insular cultures. Still, well established basic rules of quality management apply.

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  1. Critical Care, University of Toronto, Canada

    William J. Sibbald MD, FRCPC, FCCHSE (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief) (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women’s College, Health Sciences Centre, M4N 3M5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    William J. Sibbald MD, FRCPC, FCCHSE (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief) (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief)

  3. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, B15 27H, Birmingham, UK

    Julian F. Bion FRCP, FRCA, MD (Reader and Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine) (Reader and Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine)

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Frutiger, A. (2002). Driving Improvements: Quality Management in the ICU. In: Sibbald, W.J., Bion, J.F. (eds) Evaluating Critical Care. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56719-3_23

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