Design, implementation and scaling up of the balanced scorecard for hospitals in Lebanon: Policy coherence and application lessons for low and middle income countries

Health Policy

Volumn 103, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 305-314

  El Jardali, Fadi ^a   Saleh, Shadi ^a   Ataya, Nour ^a   Jamal, Diana ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Accreditation; Balanced scorecard; Benchmarking; Hospitals; Lebanon; Performance indicators; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LEBANON; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LEBANON; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 80255123751     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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