Improving quality in healthcare: Start with the patient

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 813-819

  Dupree, Erin ^a   Anderson, Rebecca ^a   Nash, Ira S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

improving quality; patient safety; patient centered care; patient centeredness; patient provider communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL ERROR; MORTALITY; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 80855156515     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20297     Document Type: Article

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