Using the quality improvement cycle on clinical indicators-improve or remove?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 193, Issue SUPPL. 8, 2010, Pages

  Sketcher Baker, Kirstine M ^a   Kamp, Maarten C ^a,b   Connors, Julia A ^a   Martin, Don J ^a   Collins, Justin E ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL INDICATOR; EPISIOTOMY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MATERNAL CARE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PERINEUM INJURY; REVIEW; ARTICLE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; EPISIOTOMY; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUEENSLAND; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79952110157     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04023.x     Document Type: Review

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