A Merged Model of Quality Improvement and Evaluation: Maximizing Return on Investment

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 885-892

  Woodhouse, Lynn D ^a   Toal, Russ ^a   Nguyen, Trang ^b   Keene, DeAnna ^a   Gunn, Laura ^a   Kellum, Andrea ^c   Nelson, Gary ^c   Charles, Simone ^a   Tedders, Stuart ^a   Williams, Natalie ^a   Livingood, William C ^a,d  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Healthcare Georgia Foundation ^*

^c Healthcare Georgia Foundation Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

evaluation design; evaluation methods; formative evaluation; health promotion; logic models; outcome evaluation; process evaluation; quality assurance quality improvement; summative evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EVALUATION DESIGN; EVALUATION METHODS; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LOGIC MODELS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME EVALUATION; PROCESS EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SUMMATIVE EVALUATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EVALUATION DESIGN; EVALUATION METHODS; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; LOGIC MODELS; OUTCOME EVALUATION; PROCESS EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SUMMATIVE EVALUATION;

ASTHMA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84876349576     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839912474464     Document Type: Article

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