Implementation of Departmental Quality Strategies Is Positively Associated with Clinical Practice: Results of a Multicenter Study in 73 Hospitals in 7 European Countries

• Rosa Sunol ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  * E-mail: rsunol@fadq.org

  Affiliations Avedis Donabedian Research Institute (FAD), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Red de investigación en servicios de salud en enfermedades crónicas REDISSEC, Barcelona, Spain

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• Cordula Wagner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliations NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Public and Occupational Health,EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Onyebuchi A. Arah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Solvejg Kristensen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliations Danish Clinical Registries, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Holger Pfaff ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center for Health Services Research Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Niek Klazinga ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Caroline A. Thompson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliation Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute (PAMFRI), Palo Alto, California, United States of America

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• Aolin Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Maral DerSarkissian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Paul Bartels ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliations Danish Clinical Registries, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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• Philippe Michel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliation Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

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• Oliver Groene ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Sunol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Solvejg Kristensen, Holger Pfaff, Niek Klazinga, Caroline A. Thompson, Aolin Wang, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene

  Affiliation Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• DUQuE Project Consortium

  ¶Membership of the DUQuE Project Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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