Hospital perceptions of medicare’s sepsis quality reporting initiative

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 963-968

  Barbash, Ian J ^a   Rak, Kimberly J ^a   Kuza, Courtney C ^a   Kahn, Jeremy M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICARE; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HOSPITAL; INTERVIEW; PERCEPTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERCEPTION; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85037823042     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12788/jhm.2929     Document Type: Article

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