Evaluation of international standards of quality improvement and patient safety (QPS) in hospitals of Tehran university of medical sciences (TUMS) from the managers' point of view

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 647-653

  Farzianpour, Fereshteh ^a   Arab, Mohammad ^a   Amoozagar, Saeideh ^a   Fouroshani, Abbas Rahimi ^a   Rashidian, Arash ^a   Moghadam, Mahmood Nakoei ^b   Hosseini, Shadi ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Hospitals; Managers; Patient safety; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555222576     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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