Data and methods to facilitate delivery system reform: Harnessing collective intelligence to learn from positive deviance

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1570-1580

  Luft, Harold S ^a  

^a PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

health care financing insurance premiums; health care organizations and systems; Health economics; health policy politics law regulation; incentives in health care; payment systems: FFS capitation RBRVS DRGs risk adjusted payments

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BILLING AND CLAIMS; COST; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW;

DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 77956587566     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01148.x     Document Type: Review

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