No payment for preventable complications: Reviewing the early literature for content, guidance, and impressions

Quality Management in Health Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-75

  Hoff, Timothy J ^a   Soerensen, Christina ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicare; policy implementation; preventable complications; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REVIEW; REWARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; POLICY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REWARD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651441230     PISSN: 10638628     EISSN: 15505154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QMH.0b013e31820311d2     Document Type: Article

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