Ranking lists on hospital quality - Are they guiding or are they misleading? Methodical problems in publishing of quality indicators;Ranglister over sygehuses kvalitet - Er de vejledende eller er de vildledende? Om metodiske problemer ved offentliggørelse af kvalitetsindikatorer

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 164, Issue 38, 2002, Pages 4385-4388

  Endahl, Lars A ^a   Utzon, Jan ^a  

^a Center for Evaluering   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BENCHMARKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENMARK; DISCLOSURE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; PUBLISHING; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037119640     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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