Mandatory Reporting and Pay for Performance: Health Care Infections in the Limelight

AORN Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Arias, Kathleen Meehan ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; COOPERATION; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL ASPECT; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REIMBURSEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CONSUMER ADVOCACY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.); INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MEDICARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41449117463     PISSN: 00012092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aorn.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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