(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent organization that cultivates concepts and knowledge sharing for improving health care worldwide, and the BMJ Group, an organization committed to improving quality and safety in health care, are hosting the 17th International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare. The forum will be held April 17–20, 2012, in Paris at the Le Palais des Congrès de Paris.

The International Forum is aimed at physicians, nurses, managers, other health professionals, health care leaders, policy makers, researchers, patients, and patients’ representatives. A record 3,000 people from 80 countries are expected to attend. They’ll have the opportunity to engage with and learn from each other at this vital time when health care improvers and policy makers around the world are grappling with how to achieve better care at a sustainable cost.

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