
The applied sciences, or as most in American call it “quality improvement”, is currently undergoing another phase of rebranding due to the serious need imposed upon American healthcare by CMS to move from volume to value (quality/cost).
And this has caused another influx of “new methodologies” aimed at increasing the rate of improvement. More often than not, these are attempts to “bottle and sell” improvement as some complicated series of FINITE STEPS that MUST be done in a set order.