Measure for measure: The cost of improving quality

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Wright, Jason D ^a   Hershman, Dawn L ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSENSUS; COST; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MEASUREMENT; MEDICARE; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MEDICAL FEE; NOTE; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84908520903     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dju266     Document Type: Editorial

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