Benchmarking in emergency health systems

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 430-435

  Kennedy, Marcus P ^a   Allen, Jacqueline ^a   Allen, Greg ^a  

^a Angliss Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Emergency medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BENCHMARKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0036911713     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2002.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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