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Institutional quality and patient safety programs: An overview for the healthcare epidemiologist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2020

Pranavi V. Sreeramoju*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Tara N. Palmore
Affiliation:
Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Grace M. Lee
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University Stanford Children’s Health, Stanford, California
Michael B. Edmond
Affiliation:
Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, Iowa
Jan E. Patterson
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Kent A. Sepkowitz
Affiliation:
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Donald A. Goldmann
Affiliation:
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts
David K. Henderson
Affiliation:
Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Keith S. Kaye
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*
Author for correspondence: Pranavi V. Sreeramoju, E-mail: Pranavi.Sreeramoju@UTSouthwestern.edu

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