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Glossary

Maybe you’re reading an article full of jargon. Or maybe you just want to refresh your memory after taking a course. Either way, here you’ll find definitions for patient safety and quality improvement terms.

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Tools A Handy Guide to Health Care Organizations
 

Trying to make sense of the “alphabet soup” of organizations and their acronyms? Here’s a handy “A to Z” guide to health-care-related professional associations, national initiatives and organizations, and government and regulatory organizations.

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Tools Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Glossary
 
What’s an affinity diagram? Or a Pareto chart? People love to use jargon — but it’s not much fun to try and decode it. Use this glossary of patient safety and quality improvement terms when you’re tackling a technical article or just refreshing your memory after taking an IHI Open School course.
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