Assessing Evaluations of Hospital Quality Programmes
EvaluationPublished 1 October 1997
John Øvretveit
Citations9
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SJR score0.80
SNIP1.28
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This paper describes the difficulties of evaluating quality programmes and of assessing evaluations of such programmes. It gives a framework which researchers and managers can use to assess reported evaluations of quality programmes.
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