Emergency department operations dictionary: Results of the second performance measures and benchmarking summit

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 539-544

  Welch, Shari J ^a   Stone Griffith, Suzanne ^b   Asplin, Brent ^c   Davidson, Steven J ^d   Augustine, James ^e   Schuur, Jeremiah D ^f  

^a Institute for Health Care Delivery Research   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; METRIC SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION;

DICTIONARIES AS TOPIC; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UTAH;

EID: 79956112502     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01062.x     Document Type: Article

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