Quality in clinical practice

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1085-1090

  Cone, David C ^a   Nedza, Susan M ^a   Augustine, James J ^a   Davidson, Steven J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Health care quality assurance; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036844439     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.11.1085     Document Type: Article

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