Implementing performance improvement in New Zealand emergency departments: The six hour time target policy national research project protocol

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jones, Peter ^a,b   Chalmers, Linda ^c   Wells, Susan ^b   Ameratunga, Shanthi ^b   Carswell, Peter ^c   Ashton, Toni ^c   Curtis, Elana ^b   Reid, Papaarangi ^b   Stewart, Joanna ^b   Harper, Alana ^a   Tenbensel, Tim ^c  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Emergency Medicine; Health Policy; Health Services Research; Inequalities; Models; Quality of Health Care; Theoretical

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LENGTH OF STAY; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84857132614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-45     Document Type: Article

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