Performing continuous quality improvement for a digital health sciences library through an electronic mail analysis

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 594-601

  D'Alessandro, Donna M ^a,b   Qian, Fang ^a   D'Alessandro, Michael P ^a   Ostrem, Steven F ^a   Choi, Teresa A ^a   Erkonen, William E ^a   Galvin, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DIGITAL COMPUTER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SCIENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIBRARY SCIENCE;

ADULT; CHILD; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0031724048     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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