Sustained increases in productivity with maintenance of quality in an academic anesthesia practice

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1104-1108

  Freund, Peter R ^a,b   Posner, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SAFETY; WORKLOAD;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; COHORT STUDIES; EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0037377860     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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