Thursday, November 5, 2009

Intermountain Healthcare

Here's a preview of this Sunday's NY Times magazine piece on the Intermountain Healthcare approach to improving health care quality, which relies upon standardization and protocol-driven approaches to care.

Posted without comment, both because I haven't finished the article myself, and because I'm on the ID consult service right now--keeping busy seeing patients who for the most part do not fit easily into any diagnostic or treatment protocol.

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