HCFA's Health Care Quality Improvement Program: The Medical Informatics Challenge

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-26

  Grant, James B ^a,b   Hayes, Risa P ^a,b   Pates, Robert D ^c   Elward, Kurtis S ^b,d,e   Ballard, David J ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kerr L White Inst Hlth Serv Res   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d Family Medicine of Albemarle   (United States)

^e Virginia Health Quality Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS REVIEW ORGANIZATION; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICARE; PROFESSIONAL REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES;

EID: 57349200743     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96342646     Document Type: Review

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