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Published on: February 16, 2011

Using lean methodology to teach quality improvement to internal medicine residents at a safety net hospital

Charlene Weigel1, Winnie Suen, Gouri Gupte

  • 11Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

American Journal of Medical Quality : the Official Journal of the American College of Medical Quality
|February 6, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
LeanQI curriculumcurricular developmentquality improvement

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