The cost of efforts to improve quality

Medical Care

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1084-1087

  Dranove, David ^a,d   Reynolds, Katherine S E ^a   Gillies, Robin R ^b   Shortell, Stephen S ^b   Rademaker, Alfred W ^c   Huang, Cheng Fang ^e  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Kellogg Grad School of Management ^*

Author keywords

Continuous quality improvement; Cost; Quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033209891     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199910000-00012     Document Type: Article

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