Guide designed to help hospitals reduce variation in care

Modern Healthcare: AHA Guide Takes Aim At Variation In Care
The American Hospital Association has released a guide to help hospitals and health care systems reduce inappropriate variation in areas such as end-of-life care, imaging, emergency services and obstetrics. Issued as part of the AHA's Hospital in Pursuit of Excellence initiative, the 44-page guide ... includes case studies, best practices, and strategies for understanding and measuring variation (McKinney, 2/9).

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