A framework for benchmarking hospital performance: Application to surgical site infection

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 95, Issue , 2003, Pages 777-782

  Boëlle, Pierre Yves ^a,b   Golliot, Franck ^c   Valleron, Alain Jacques ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^c CCLIN Paris Nord   (France)

Author keywords

Information architecture; Knowledge representation; Quality assessment and improvement

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SURGERY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMBINING RULES; HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE; INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS; SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 24344503894     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-939-4-777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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