Outcomes-based quality improvement: Reducing the data collection burden

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 534-535

  Bradley, Elizabeth H ^a   Besdine, Richard ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLASSIFICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032044137     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1998.tb02480.x     Document Type: Editorial

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