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Quality and patient safety measures in health care have recently come to the forefront of the health policy debate. Reorganization and reform are urgently needed to fix what is now perceived as a disjointed and inefficient system. Whether by creating physician/provider incentives to improve quality or arming consumers with information about their providers and health plans, the prevention of health care errors, and the elimination or mitigation of patient injury caused by these errors, requires a body of health services research.
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