Gert Westert is Professor of Health Services Research/Quality of Health Care at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Director of IQ Healthcare and Professor of Health Services Research at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. IQ Healthcare is one of the leading scientific institutes in the field of research, education and support of quality, safety and innovation in health care in Europe. Dr. Westert was co-editor of the Dutch health care performance reports 2006, 2008, 2010 at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and BMC Health Services Research. Prof. Westert is also editor of Morbidity, performance and quality in primary care (Oxford/Seattle: Radcliffe, 2006) and co-author of three textbooks in the fields of public health, health services research and health economics.

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