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Module 4 Required Resources

Textbook: The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools (5th ed.)
ISBN: 9781640553576

Joshi M. S., Ransom, S. B., Ransom, E. R., & Nash, D. B. (2023). The healthcare quality book, vision, strategy, and tools (5th ed.). Health Administration Press.
Read Chapters 9 and 14.
These chapters will provide you with a comprehensive overview of Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in health care.

Article: The Affordable Care Act: A Brief Summary
National Conference on State Legislators. (2011). States implement health reform, the affordable care act: A brief summary.

Video: TED Talk-Health Care Should be a Team Sport
TED. (2013). Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport [Video]. YouTube.
This video provides a compelling argument, based on the dangerous experience of a patient in the health care system, that, the only way to truly benefit the patient is for health care to be a “team sport.”

Journey to Perfect: Mayo Clinic and the Path to Quality
Buckman, M., & Buckman, J. (2012). Journey to perfect: Mayo Clinic and the path to quality.ASQ.

Module 4 Optional Resources

Article: Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion Annually
Jason, L. (2020). Medicare for all would save $450 billion annually while preventing 68,000 deaths, New Study Shows. Newsweek.
This article presents an overview of a study that concludes that Medicare for all would save $450 billion annually while preventing 68,000 deaths, a compelling article why the U.S. should move to a system of universal health care.

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