Case study: Development of and stakeholder responses to a nursing home consumer information system

American Journal of Medical Quality

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-50

  O'Meara, Janis ^a   Kitchener, Martin ^a   Collier, Eric ^a   Lyons, Margaret ^b   De Billwiller Kiss, Ana ^b   Simon, Lisa Payne ^c   Harrington, Charlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b At Issue Consulting Group   (United States)

^c California HealthCare Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer information Web site; Nursing home quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; E-MAIL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; NURSING HOME; SATISFACTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CALIFORNIA; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NURSING HOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 17544378892     PISSN: 10628606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1062860604273773     Document Type: Article

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