Editorials: Improvement interventions are social treatments, not pills

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 526-527

  Davidoff, Frank ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FOLLOW UP; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE; PILL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; MALE; NURSING CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING CARE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT READMISSION;

EID: 84908097746     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1789     Document Type: Editorial

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