Don Berwick and Michael Rothman discuss the Pursuing Perfection initiative, which is intended to help health care organizations integrate improvement work into day-to-day life, with systemwide changes in infrastructure, project management, care, and leadership.
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- Perfectionism is linked to eating disorders, and this study aimed to clarify its relationship specifically with binge eating through a systematic review and meta-analysis of past research.
- The analysis included 30 articles and found a small-to-moderate positive correlation between general perfectionism and binge eating, with significant variability across studies.
- Results indicated that "Perfectionistic Concerns" had a stronger association with binge eating compared to "Perfectionistic Strivings," and factors like sample age and study design influenced this relationship.
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