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Hurdles
- Lack of organizational commitment
- Turf issues
- Training
- Long term evaluation is problematic
- Disruptive physicians
- Middle management not engaged
- Up-front costs
- Cultural model (top down versus bottom up)
- Punitive history difficult to eradicate
- Disincentives for improvement
- Difficulties in linking improvement with outcome
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