Toward more sustainable health care quality improvement in developing countries: The "little Steps" approach

Quality Management in Health Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 295-304

  Umar, Nasir ^a   Litaker, David ^a,b   Terris, Darcey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Health care reform; Program evaluation; Quality models; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; STANDARD;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 75349086023     PISSN: 10638628     EISSN: 15505154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181bee28d     Document Type: Article

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