Assessing nursing home care quality through Bayesian networks

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 382-392

  Goodson, Justin ^a   Jang, Wooseung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Nurse staffing; Nursing home quality; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 58149198977     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-008-9063-x     Document Type: Article

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