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ArticleThe Permanente journal2009

No respect: research in quality, safety, and process improvement.

Ilan S Rubinfeld, H Mathilda Horst

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Article in The Permanente journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ilan S RubinfeldIlan S Rubinfeld, MD, MBA, is an Attending Physician in Trauma and Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. He is also Assistant Professor of Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency, Henry Ford Hospital; and Associate Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care, Henry Ford Hospital. E-mail: irubinfeld@yahoo.com .
H Mathilda Horst

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The need for good quality and safety research has never been more imperative, but even as we encourage and promote such work, we seem to suppress it through institutional bias and inertia. Indeed the culture of health care seems to have a love-hate relationship with quality-improvement work as a whole. In this commentary we explore some of the implications of the application of pure science standards at the sharp end of clinical practice, where the down-and-dirty street-level improvement work happens.

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PMID20740106
PMCPMC2911824

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