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October 15, 2003 Misconceptions about "Best Practices" can stymie creative thought and successful management. The near-universal search for best practices in healthcare often results in looking for a "perfect match" and carbon-copying that facility's practices, according to HMC's Director of Knowledge Management, Shelley Burns, in a new article. Read the entire article at CORHealth The first two paragaphs of the article are excerpted below:
"Every day, countless managers are charged with implementing "best practices" in their healthcare organizations. And, though these initiatives are crucial in the pursuit of competitive performance measures, most are doomed from the outset by misconceptions.
Too often, managers and administrators wrongly and unrealistically focus on lengthy research to identify a perfectly identical learning partner already applying the ideal best practice. This tends to anchor the project in limbo, dead in the water."
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