Patient Safety Is Not Enough: Targeting Quality Improvements to Optimize the Health of the Population

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-36

  Woolf, Steven H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEATH; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346096870     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-140-1-200401060-00009     Document Type: Review

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