Inside the Green House "black Box": Opportunities for High-Quality Clinical Decision Making

Health Services Research

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 378-397

  Bowers, Barbara ^a   Roberts, Tonya ^a   Nolet, Kimberly ^a   Ryther, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

culture change; long term care; Medical decision making; nursing; nursing homes; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GROUNDED THEORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; RESIDENT; STAFF; STUDY DESIGN; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84956634079     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12427     Document Type: Article

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