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Leading Health Care Transformation: A Primer for Clinical Leaders.

Joshi M, Erb N, Zhang S, Sikka R. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 2015. ISBN: 9781498700184.

Leadership can enable the change needed to address health care safety and quality improvement challenges. This publication summarizes the evidence on key patient safety topics, such as high reliability,patient and family engagement, and safety culture. The authors also review tools and case studies to explain how physicians and executives can act as champions for this work.

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