Fragmented management, hospital contract cleaning and infection control

Policy and Politics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 445-463

  Davies, Steve ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contracting out; Hospital cleaning; Infection control; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952859708     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: 14708442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557310X488493     Document Type: Article

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