Quality Vascular Surgical Care: The importance of Innovation and Change in an Era of Dwindling Reimbursement

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 411-416

  Buckley, Clifford J ^a   Patterson, Donald E ^a   Manning, Larry G ^a   Lee, Shirley D ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ALGORITHM; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MASS COMMUNICATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ALGORITHMS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CASE MANAGEMENT; COST CONTROL; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0035321465     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200194040-00011     Document Type: Article

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