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Hospitals serve a vital role in the healthcare system by providing inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and nonsurgical. In addition, most hospitals provide some outpatient services, particularly emergency care. Health care provided in hospitals is complex and continuously evolving, showing great variation over time, across regions, and among populations. It is subject to the latest developments in scientific discovery, newly emerging environmental circumstances, and ever changing national priorities. Involving as it does the medical care of human beings; many issues of broad public policy including access to care, patient's rights, health information security, workforce development and financing are often defined and put into action within the hospital.

For more resources relating to hospitals, please visit the Patient Safety section of MedQIC.


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