TY - BOOK AU - Institute of Medicine A2 - Molla S. Donaldson A2 - Julie J. Mohr TI - Exploring Innovation and Quality Improvement in Health Care Micro-Systems: A Cross-Case Analysis DO - 10.17226/10096 PY - 2000 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10096/exploring-innovation-and-quality-improvement-in-health-care-micro-systems PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Health and Medicine AB - Exploring Innovation and Quality Improvement in Health Care Micro-Systems defines and describes health care micro-systems and analyzes characteristics that enable specific micro-systems to improve the quality of care provided to their patient populations. This study reports on structured interviews used to collect primary data from 43 micro-systems providing primary and specialty care, hospice, emergency, and critical care. It summarizes responses to the interviews about how micro-systems function, what they know about their level of performance, how they improve care, the leadership needed, the barriers they have encountered, and how they have dealt with these barriers. ER -