Parallel quality assessment of emergency departments by european foundation for quality management model and iranian national program for hospital evaluation

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 610-619

  Imani Nasab, Mohammad Hasan ^a,b   Mohaghegh, Bahram ^a   Khalesi, Nader ^a   Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b LORESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

EFQM; Emergency department; INPHE; Iran; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886870987     PISSN: 22516085     EISSN: 22516093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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