Hospital board and management practices are strongly related to hospital performance on clinical quality metrics

Health Affairs

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1304-1311

  Tsai, Thomas C ^a,b   Jha, Ashish K ^a   Gawande, Atul A ^b   Huckman, Robert S ^c   Bloom, Nicholas ^d   Sadun, Raffaella ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOARD OF TRUSTEES; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENGLAND; STANDARDS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; GOVERNING BOARD; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938695751     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1282     Document Type: Article

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