Clinical Quality Measurement: Comparing Chart Review and Automated Methodologies

Medical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 539-552

  Dresser, Marguerite V B ^a,b   Feingold, Lisa ^a   Rosenkranz, Susan L ^a   Coltin, Kathryn L ^a  

^a HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcomes assessment methods; Quality assurance, automated data; Quality measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031154517     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199706000-00001     Document Type: Article

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