Supporting practice-based audit: A price to be paid for collecting data

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 49, Issue 447, 1999, Pages 793-795

  Lough, J R M ^a,b   Willmot, Madeleine ^a   Murray, T S ^a  

^a W Scotland Postgrad Med Educ Board   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Postgraduate Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Data collection; Staff costs

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; HEALTH CARE COST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL AUDIT; NURSE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKLOAD;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCOTLAND; SOFTWARE; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0032830459     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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