Exploring the use of social network methods in designing healthcare quality improvement teams

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1119-1130

  Meltzer, David ^a   Chung, Jeanette ^a   Khalili, Parham ^a   Marlow, Elizabeth ^a   Arora, Vineet ^a   Schumock, Glen ^b   Burt, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

General internal medicine; Hospitals; Quality improvement; Social network analysis; Teams; USA

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955579359     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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