http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:46:17 GMT Silverchair editor@jama.jamanetwork.com webmaster@jama.jamanetwork.com http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=900272 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT Perla RJ. <span class="paragraphSection">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. 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.</span> 305 21 2223 2224 10.1001/jama.2011.735 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=900272