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Chuck Lauer: Accountability
Aug 27, 2013
“In healthcare, we are currently spending a lot of time (and money) talking about and pondering the ‘accountable entity,’” said Corder. Adding, “We wax and wane poetically about the who, what, why, when and where, when all the time it’s staring back from the mirror. We are the accountable entities.”
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Chuck Lauer. Chuck Lauer: Accountability. Becker’s Hospital Review. 2013 August 27.
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