Ontario hospitals are not using palliative care performance indicators in their balanced scorecards

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Weiss, Andrea ^a   Downar, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERFORMANCE; TERMINAL CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84882452661     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.03.006     Document Type: Letter

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