The Forgotten Component of the Quality Triad: Can We Still Learn Something from “Structure”?
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality ImprovementPublished 1 September 2001
Gregg S. Meyer, Michael P. Massagli
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Research to date suggests that a new cadre of structural measures of health care quality, which have been overlooked in the recent measures development boom, have the potential to fill in important gaps in the ability to assess quality.
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Research to date suggests that a new cadre of structural measures of health care quality, which have largely been overlooked in the recent measures development boom, have the potential to fill in important gaps in our ability to assess quality.
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