TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe physics of health care improvement
AU  - Perla RJ
Y1  - 2011/06/01
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.735
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2223
EP  - 2224
VL  - 305
IS  - 21
N2  - 
Healthcare professionals with a mandate to improve care delivery may recognize strong similarities between the challenges of a successful project and Newton's laws of motion that form the basis for classical mechanics.1 To the extent that improvement teams in health care (of various sizes and mass) can be viewed as bodies orbiting a hospital system (with varying degrees of attraction), a number of similarities can be noted. However, physics is the study of motion, whereas improvement science is, in many respects, the study of execution, or purposeful and goal-directed motion.2

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.735
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.735
ER  -