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Editorial| Volume 19, ISSUE 10, P813-815, October 2018

The Never-Ending Quest for Quality in Post-acute and Long-term Care: A Cup Half-Empty, or Half-Full?

  • Sheryl Zimmerman
    Correspondence
    Address correspondence to Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, and Philip D. Sloane, MD, MPH, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Campus Box 7590, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590.
    Affiliations
    Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Schools of Social Work and Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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  • Philip D. Sloane
    Correspondence
    Address correspondence to Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, and Philip D. Sloane, MD, MPH, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Campus Box 7590, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590.
    Affiliations
    Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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      The bad news/good news is that improving quality will forever be a concern of clinicians, researchers, policy makers, and others who have a stake in post-acute and long-term care.
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