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... convened the workshop "Cre ating a Business Case for Quality Improvement and Quality Improvement Research" on October 15, 2007, in Washington, DC, to develop a better understanding of the economic and business disciplines that encourage sustained efforts to improve the quality of health care. Throughout the country, institutional reluctance to invest in quality improvement and documentation of outcomes of quality improvement interventions remains a barrier to moving ahead, said Thomas Boat, co-chair of the Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation.
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... During this workshop, experts were asked to discuss the business case from the perspectives of those actually making the business case, policy makers, and researchers. The planning committee's statement of task for developing the workshop agenda was "to provide the forum with insight into the economic, public policy, and business disciplines that create a sustainable value proposition for aggressively pursuing quality improvement in the health care system and thereby stimulating meaningful research in this field." In summary, speakers indicated that a business case for quality improvement can indeed be made.
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... In bringing together this broad group of stakeholders with diverse views, the forum provides a neutral setting where issues related to improving the science supporting health care quality improvement and implementation can be discussed. Through their discussions, forum members attain a better understanding of what the needs are and begin crossing the communication barriers that prevent advances in the field.
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