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Improving healthcare quality through organisational peer-to-peer assessment: lessons from the nuclear power industry

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  • Peter J Pronovost 1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA2Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA3Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA4Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel W Hudson 5U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Division of Risk Analysis, Rockville, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Peter Pronovost, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1909 Thames Street, 2nd floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA; ppronovo{at}jhmi.edu
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Pronovost PJ, Hudson DW
Improving healthcare quality through organisational peer-to-peer assessment: lessons from the nuclear power industry
BMJ Quality & Safety 2012;21:872-875.

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  • Accepted April 12, 2012
  • First published May 5, 2012.
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July 30, 2016

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