The Challenge to Change : Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom /

There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. In this book, Rebecca Kolins Givan analyses the successes and fa...

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Main Author: Givan, Rebecca Kolins, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
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