EA

Quality Pioneer

Ernest Amory Codman

The End Result Idea

Surgeon who argued that hospitals should follow patients to learn whether treatment achieved the intended result.

Contribution to quality

Surgeon who argued that hospitals should follow patients to learn whether treatment achieved the intended result. This profile introduces the ideas most closely associated with this pioneer and explains how healthcare teams can use them as a starting point for learning and improvement.

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