Reengineering acute episodic and chronic care delivery: The geisinger health system experience

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Slotkin, Jonathan R ^a   Casale, Alfred S ^a   Steele, Glenn D ^a   Toms, Steven A ^a  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Best practices; Care delivery reengineering; Comparative effectiveness research; Process improvement; Workflow redesign

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PENNSYLVANIA;

EID: 84867394752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.4.FOCUS1293     Document Type: Article

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