Improvement Science Meets Improvement Scholarship: Reframing Research for Better Healthcare

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 109-123

  Cribb, Alan ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Improvement science; Moral seriousness; Normativity; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTION; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MORALITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SCIENCE; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARDS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 85038626294     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: 15733394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-017-0354-6     Document Type: Article

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