Improving quality while managing costs in emergency medicine

Journal of Health Care Finance

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-29

  West, Timothy D ^a   Pitzer, Sharon A ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acuity assessments; Continuous quality improvement; Cost management; Emergency medicine; Quality improvement; Triage; Variation

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

COST CONTROL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RELATIVE VALUE SCALES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030817003     PISSN: 10786767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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