Evaluating emergency medical service performance measures

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-136

  McLay, Laura A ^a   Mayorga, Maria E ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete optimization; Emergency medical service; Health policy modeling; Patient outcomes; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HEALTH POLICY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; VIRGINIA;

EID: 77955868780     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-009-9115-x     Document Type: Article

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