Setting perinatal quality and safety goals: Should we strive for best outcomes?

Midwifery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 483-484

  Bingham, Debra ^a  

^a California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; NEWBORN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; SAFETY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956999057     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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