Investment in quality improvement: How to maximize the return

Health Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-42

  Gandjour, Afschin ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision modeling; Health care costs; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BUDGETS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; INVESTMENTS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 74049094041     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1449     Document Type: Article

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