The staff's views on what's the job - The starting point for quality improvement in health care

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Lindberg, Eva ^a   Rosenqvist, Urban ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Health care; Hospitals; Quality improvement; Quality systems; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645416589     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09526860310460488     Document Type: Article

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