Do quality improvement organizations improve the quality of hospital care for medicare beneficiaries?

JAMA

Volumn 293, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 2900-2907

  Snyder, Claire ^a   Anderson, Gerard ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; AGED; HUMAN; PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS REVIEW ORGANIZATION; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROFESSIONAL REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS;

EID: 20444502235     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.293.23.2900     Document Type: Article

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