Escape fire
Subtitle: designs for the future of health care
By: Donald M. Berwick ; introduction by Frank Davidoff.
Contributors: Institute for Healthcare Improvement. National Forum.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Health care reform -- United States.; Health services administration -- United States.; Medical care -- United States -- Quality control.; Patient advocacy -- United States.; Delivery of Health Care -- trends -- United States -- Collected Works.; Organizational Innovation -- United States -- Collected Works.; Patient Advocacy -- United States -- Collected Works.; Quality of Health Care -- trends -- United States -- Collected Works.
Genres: Collected Works.
Description: Berwick collects a decade's worth of opening speeches delivered at the National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, an annual event of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, of which he is cofounder and president. He uses a range of metaphors to address questions of innovation, quality of care, and organizational structure and change (the title refers to a firefighter's burning a small patch of ground in order to escape a larger approaching fire).
Notes: Keynote speeches presented at the annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, 1992-2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kevin speaks; title: Buckling down to change; title: Quality comes home; title: Run to space; title: Sauerkraut, sobriety, and the spread of change; title: Why the Vasa sank; title: Eagles and weasels; title: Escape fire; title: Dirty words and magic spells; title: Every single one; title: Plenty.