Pitfalls of using performance measures to evaluate the quality of hip fracture care

Orthopedics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 84-

  SooHoo, Nelson F ^a   Correa, Bryan ^a   Pandarinath, Rajeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 68149170168     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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