Reducing Administrative Harm in Medicine — Clinicians and Administrators Together
Walter J. O’Donnell
Abstract
The patient-safety movement has turned clinical medicine into a team sport, but administrators have been left off the team. The effects on patients of administrative decisions and changes therefore remain obscure, unexamined, and unimprovable.
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