Healthcare analytics: Creating a prioritized improvement system with performance benchmarking

Big Data

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-54

  Kolker, Eugene ^a   Kolker, Evelyne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 84991769717     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2014.0004     Document Type: Article

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