Aiming to be NEAT: Safely improving and sustaining access to emergency care in a tertiary referral hospital

Australian Health Review

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 564-574

  Sullivan, Clair M ^a   Staib, Andrew ^a   Flores, Judy ^a   Aggarwal, Leena ^a   Scanlon, Alan ^a   Martin, Jennifer H ^b   Scott, Ian A ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84908881509     PISSN: 01565788     EISSN: 14498944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AH14083     Document Type: Article

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