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a strategy to increase acceptance of standards in health care and to
speed up building these standards into systems.
NOTES
1 For the sake of simplicity, we will not go into a discussion of managers versus
executives and will use the term manager in a broad sense of someone having
responsibility for parts of or the whole organization.
2 In their original work, Mason and Mitroff use the term ‘policy’. For the purposes of
this chapter, this term can be used interchangeably with ‘strategy’.
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