Improving quality indicator report cards through Bayesian modeling

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gajewski, Byron J ^a,b   Mahnken, Jonathan D ^a   Dunton, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DECUBITUS; FALLING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NURSING COMPETENCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; NURSING; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; NURSING SERVICE, HOSPITAL; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 57249111883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-8-77     Document Type: Article

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