Applying platform design to improve the integration of patient services across the continuum of care

Managing Service Quality

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-40

  Meyer, Marc H ^a   Jekowsky, Eliot ^a   Crane, Frederick G ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services; Innovation; Medical management; Patient care; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846674648     PISSN: 09604529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09604520710720656     Document Type: Article

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