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Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS; Sushma Jain, MBBS, MPH

Arch Surg. 2008;143(11):1055-1056.

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In this article, Wright et al report their findings addressing a quality of care improvement initiative in Ontario and share important discoveries that are appropriate to the current environment of health care quality evaluation. The authors are to be congratulated for their efforts in bringing this work forward. There are several things to appreciate in this study.

First, it is a collaborative effort of clinical health services researchers and the community (Ontario). This community-based participatory research effort, where researchers partner with a community to provide improved quality of care,¹ is one that we hope will be performed with increasing frequency. The simple concept is to demonstrably improve care in an identified community, but importantly, working with the community such that the improvement has traction and is sustained. For many of the partnerships that have been established in this regard, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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