A team quality improvement sequence for complex problems

Quality in Health Care

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 239-246

  Øvretveit, John ^a,b  

^a NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Change; Evaluation; Improvement; Multidisciplinary teams

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; TEAMWORK;

EID: 0032794958     PISSN: 09638172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.8.4.239     Document Type: Review

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