Quality: the new healthcare imperative.

Healthc Financ Manage

PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services--Health Enterprise Growth Practice, Chicago, USA.

Published: August 2007

Increasing evidence shows that besides saving lives, quality initiatives can increase volume and market share, shorten hospital stays, and result in fewer complications and readmissions. A look at the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines program shows how evidence-based therapies have improved quality and patient outcomes.

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