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Learning Objectives

Characterize a learning health care system.
Discuss foundations of a learning health care system.
Integrate the idea of a learning health care system with the problem of practice variation and improving care delivery.

Readings

Gawande, A. (2009, May 25). The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care. The New Yorker: Annals of Medicine, Retrived from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conundrum
Building the learning health system: Describing an organizational infrastructure to support continuous learning, Kraft et al. Learn Health Sys. 2017; 1:e10034
Greene SM, Reid RJ, Larson EB. Implementing the Learning Health System: From Concept to Action. Ann Intern Med. 2012;157:207–210. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-157-3-201208070-00012

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