Managing health care decisions and improvement through simulation modeling

Quality Management in Health Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-29

  Forsberg, Helena Hvitfeldt ^a   Aronsson, Håkan ^b   Keller, Christina ^c,d   Lindblad, Staffan ^a,e  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

decision making; health care; learning; simulation; value

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 78651427517     PISSN: 10638628     EISSN: 15505154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QMH.0b013e3182033bdc     Document Type: Article

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