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Hospitalist Pioneer Bob Wachter Warns Waste Reduction Is New Quality Focus

The Hospitalist. 2014 November;2014(11)
Author(s):
Candace Mitchell

 

Dr. Wachter closed SHM's 2013 annual meeting in National Harbor, MD, with a keynote address that identified cost and waste reduction as new planks of hospitalist's value proposition.

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