2 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK 3 Department of Health Sciences, University of York and Hull York Medical School, York, UK 4 Department of Health Sciences, University of ...

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3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

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Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...

The beast and the burden: will pruning performance measurement improve quality?