Rationale and design of the national benchmarking and evidence-based national clinical guidelines for chronic heart failure management programs study

Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 276-282

  Driscoll, Andrea ^a   Worrall Carter, Linda ^a   Stewart, Simon ^b,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; Chronic disease management programs; Chronic heart failure; Clinical audit; Postdischarge programs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUSTRALIA; BENCHMARKING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 33748661466     PISSN: 08894655     EISSN: 15505049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005082-200607000-00007     Document Type: Article

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