Improving healthcare quality through organisational peer-to-peer assessment: Lessons from the nuclear power industry

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 872-875

  Pronovost, Peter J ^a,b,c   Hudson, Daniel W ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PATIENT SAFETY; PEER GROUP; PERFORMANCE; PROFESSIONALISM; REVIEW;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PROFESSIONAL REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 84867673152     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2011-000470     Document Type: Review

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