Identifying quality improvement intervention publications - A comparison of electronic search strategies

Implementation Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hempel, Susanne ^a   Rubenstein, Lisa V ^a,b,c,d   Shanman, Roberta M ^a   Foy, Robbie ^e   Golder, Su ^f   Danz, Marjorie ^a   Shekelle, Paul G ^a,b,c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PUBLISHING; RECALL; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MENTAL RECALL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79960873883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-6-85     Document Type: Article

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