Quality quandaries: Health care quality reducing the length of stay at a hospital

Quality Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-131

  Bisgaard, Søren ^a,b   Does, Ronald J M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BOTTOM LINES; CASE STUDIES; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASES; LEAN SIX SIGMAS; LENGTH OF STAYS; PARETO ANALYSES; QUALITY QUANDARIES; REDUCED COSTS;

HEALTH;

EID: 57849137981     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: 15324222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110802529612     Document Type: Article

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