Using a hospital quality improvement toolkit to improve performance on the AHRQ quality indicators

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 177-184

  Hussey, Peter S ^a   Burns, Rachel M ^a   Weinick, Robin M ^a   Mayer, Lindsay ^b   Cerese, Julie ^b   Farley, Donna O ^a,c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b University HealthSystem Consortium   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875437594     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1553-7250(13)39024-2     Document Type: Article

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