Conventional evaluations of improvement interventions: More trials or just more tribulations?

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 881-884

  Shojania, Kaveh G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY CARE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOUTH AFRICA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT METHODOLOGIES; QUALITY MEASUREMENT;

HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERVENTION STUDIES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84887745108     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002377     Document Type: Editorial

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