Quality management and benchmarking in emergency medicine
Current Opinion in AnaesthesiologyPublished 1 April 2008
Roland C. E. Francis, Claudia Spies, Thoralf Kerner
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According to the available evidence, more performance improvement strategies need to be tested to delineate which process changes would be most effective in improving patient outcome in emergency medicine.
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According to the available evidence, more performance improvement strategies need to be tested to delineate which process changes would be most effective in improving patient outcome in emergency medicine.
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