Validating Quality Indicators: Quality as Relationship between Structure, Process, and Outcome

Evaluation Review

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 292-309

  Salzer, Mark S ^a   Nixon, Carol T ^b   Schut, L James A ^b   Karver, Marc S ^b   Bickman, Leonard ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031172904     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9702100302     Document Type: Article

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