"most wired hospitals" rate patient satisfaction

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 96-102

  Whitten, Pamela ^a   Mylod, Deirdre ^b   Gavran, Goran ^c   Sypher, Howard ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Press Ganey Associates Incorporated   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURVEY DATA;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 42149187633     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1330311.1330330     Document Type: Article

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