The impact of practice development in an emergency department: A pluralistic evaluation

Practice Development in Health Care

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-107

  Moss, Cheryle ^a   Walsh, Kenneth ^b   Jordan, Zoe ^a,c   Macdonald, Lindsay ^a,c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c WAIKATO DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovation; Emergency services; Focus groups; Pluralistic evaluation; Practice development; Semi structured interviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049191451     PISSN: 14759861     EISSN: 15570681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pdh.252     Document Type: Review

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