Facilitating quality improvement in primary health care by practice visiting

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 48-54

  Eliasson, G ^a,c   Berg, L ^a   Carlsson, P ^a   Lindstrom K ^a   Bengtsson, C ^b  

^a Primary Health Care   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c SFAMs råd för kvalitetsutveckling   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY PRACTICE; MEDICAL AUDIT; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SWEDEN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0031916051     PISSN: 09638172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.7.1.48     Document Type: Article

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