Can hospital rankings measure clinical and educational quality?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-184

  Philibert, Ingrid ^a  

^a Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL COMPLIANCE; MORTALITY; NURSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; VALIDITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PUBLICATION; STANDARD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AMERICAS; BENCHMARKING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 59849119150     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181939034     Document Type: Article

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