Improvement of hospital performance through innovation: Toward the value of hospital care

Health Care Manager

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 129-140

  Dias, Casimiro ^a   Escoval, Ana ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

health care organizations; hospitals; integrated delivery systems; technology adoption

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PORTUGAL; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PORTUGAL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84877705686     PISSN: 15255794     EISSN: 1550512X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCM.0b013e31828ef60a     Document Type: Article

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