Measurement of the safety and quality of health care
- 15 May 2006
- journal article
- other
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 184 (S10) , S51-S55
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00363.x
Abstract
Measurement of safety and quality is fundamental to health care delivery. A variety of measures are needed to fully understand the system; quantitative and qualitative measures are both useful in di...Keywords
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