Accounting for quality: On the relationship between accounting and quality improvement in healthcare

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pflueger, Dane ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accounting; Measurement; Patient survey; Quality; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MANDATORY REPORTING; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MANDATORY REPORTING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84928339591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-0769-4     Document Type: Article

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