An hypothesis paper on practice environment and the provision of health care: Could hospital occupancy rates effect quality?

Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 69-74

  Forster, Alan ^a,d   Tugwell, Peter ^a,b   Van Walraven, Carl ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Loeb Health Research Unit   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Occupancy; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; REVIEW; THEORY; TIME MANAGEMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

BED OCCUPANCY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0033789797     PISSN: 13205455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1762.2000.00371.x     Document Type: Review

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