How the national healthcare quality and disparities reports can catalyze quality improvement

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  McNeill, Dwight ^a   Kelley, Ed ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implementation; Models; Quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PROCESS MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; POVERTY; QUALITY CONTROL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR;

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANNUAL REPORTS; BENCHMARKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 14844325820     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200503001-00012     Document Type: Article

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