Guidelines for establishing a quality improvement program in interventional radiology

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 617-625

  Steele, Joseph R ^a   Wallace, Michael J ^a   Hovsepian, David M ^b   James, Brent C ^c   Kundu, Sanjoy ^d   Miller, Donald L ^e   Rose, Steven C ^f   Sacks, David ^g   Shah, Samir S ^h   Cardella, John F ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Institute for Health Care Delivery Research   (United States)

^e SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g READING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY CARE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDIZATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; STANDARD;

PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956635811     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: 15357732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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