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Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients' Care, Fourth Edition, helps health professional learners diagnose, measure, analyze, change, and lead improvements in health care, with the goal to shape reliable, high-quality systems of care in partnership with patients. This new edition, copublished by Joint Commission Resources and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is authored by a powerhouse team of health care quality improvement experts. It includes updated resources, examples, figures, tables, and tools as well as a new focus on health equity and disparities of care brought to light by the COVID-19 pandemic. This focus explores the relationship between social determinants of health and how improvement methods and skills can help identify and close disparity gaps in systems of care. Also new to this edition is an expanded discussion of effective teamwork and the importance of creating multidisciplinary health care team's that partner with patients and their families. Other topics addressed in this edition include the following: Finding scientific evidence for clinical improvement, Identifying a focus for improvement, Understanding process literacy, culture, content, and systems in health care, Analyzing data for decision-making and using measurement tools to gain insight, Understanding and implementing changes and sustaining improvements, Publishing and presenting your improvement work, This book is used for health care professional education in universities, colleges, medical schools, and nursing schools across the country. It is aimed at nursing and medical students, resident physicians, health profession educators, and nursing and medical leadership staff in all health care settings. About Joint Commission Resources, JCR is an expert resource for health care organizations, providing consulting services, educational services, and publications to assist in improving quality and safety and to help in meeting the accreditation