Audit filters for improving processes of care and clinical outcomes in trauma systems

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Evans, Christopher ^a   Howes, Daniel ^a   Pickett, William ^a   Dagnone, Luigi ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIT FILTER; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 77950140258     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007590.pub2     Document Type: Review

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