Nursing home report cards

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 859-861

  Grabowski, David C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; NURSING MINIMUM DATA SET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BENCHMARKING; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957276274     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181f49ed9     Document Type: Editorial

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