Preventive ethics: Addressing ethics quality gaps on a systems level

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Foglia, Mary Beth ^a,b   Fox, Ellen ^c   Chanko, Barbara ^d   Bottrell, Melissa M ^d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VHA National Center for Ethics in Health Care   (United States)

^d Faculty Affiliate in the Machine Learning Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84857327914     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1553-7250(12)38014-8     Document Type: Article

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