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BMJ Open Qual. 2017 Sep 24;6(2):e000052. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000052. eCollection 2017.

A local quality initiative to improve follow-up times for patients with heart failure.

BMJ open quality

Toni Schofield, Juan Duero Posada, Farid Foroutan, Ana Carolina Alba, Michael McDonald, Meredith Linghorne

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  2. Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 29450270 PMCID: PMC5699116 DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000052

[No abstract available.]

Keywords: PDSA; continuous quality improvement; control charts/run charts; process mapping; transitions in care

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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