The Denver connection (Porter-Swedish) experiment revisited

Clinical Governance

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 337-345

  Birnbaum, David ^a   Petersen, Carol ^b  

^a Applied Epidemiology   (Canada)

^b Association of periOperative Registered Nurses   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services; Quality; Safety measures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIMENTATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346777343     PISSN: 14777274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14777270310503490     Document Type: Article

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