Measuring Quality Improvement in Public Health: The Development and Psychometric Testing of a QI Maturity Tool

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-147

  Joly, Brenda M ^a   Booth, Maureen ^a   Mittal, Prashant ^a   Shaler, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

health department; measurement tool; quality improvement; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84861835802     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278711433065     Document Type: Article

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