The impact of care pathways for patients with proximal femur fracture: Rationale and design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Vanhaecht, Kris ^a,b,c   Sermeus, Walter ^a,b   Peers, Jan ^a,b   Lodewijckx, Cathy ^a,d   Deneckere, Svin ^a   Leigheb, Fabrizio ^e   Boonen, Steven ^a   Sermon, An ^d   Boto, Paulo ^f   Mendes, Rita Veloso ^f   Panella, Massimiliano ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b European Pathway Association   (Belgium)

^c Western Norway Research Network on Integrated Health Care Helse Fonna   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84861334285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-124     Document Type: Article

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