Very Optimistic. Having worked on this problem around the year 2000 in the Norwegian health care system and also in the public sector you'll quickly find that f

Very Optimistic. Having worked on this problem around the year 2000 in the Norwegian health care system and also in the public sector you'll quickly find that funnily enough doctors don't agree on what is the "best" procedure most of the time. Even in Norway where they register every single cancer patient, treatment and outcome it's hard to make up completely standardized treatments for cancer and that's just a single disease. Most countries don't have anything close to that. What could be damn useful however is good old fashion infection checklists. Since the time of Joseph Lister there have barely been any progress in infection control at hospitals. One might even say there has been a substantial regression. Even something as simple as replacing all the steel door handles with copper would help (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-442135/Could-copper-door-handle-help-beat-MRSA.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-442135/Could-coppe...).