Piloting a state health department accreditation model: The North Carolina experience

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 85-95

  Reed, Joy ^a,d   Pavletic, Denise ^a   Devlin, Leah ^a   Davis, Mary V ^a   Beitsch, Leslie M ^b   Baker, Edward L ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d 1916 Mail Service Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Accreditation; Performance standards; Quality improvement; State health department

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SELF EVALUATION; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCREDITATION; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NORTH CAROLINA; PILOT PROJECTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATE GOVERNMENT;

EID: 67650938541     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PHH.0000346003.13533.67     Document Type: Article

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