Comparing patient reports about hospital care across a Canadian-US border
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Comparing patient reports about hospital care across a Canadian-US border.
OBJECTIVE To compare patient reports about hospital care between western New York State and southern Ontario using a random intercept model. METHOD Cross-sectional survey of 3923 patients who received medical or surgical care between August and October 2004 at 28 hospitals (14 hospitals per jurisdiction). Thirty-five questions were combined to calculate eight indicators with scores ranging fr...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1353-4505,1464-3677
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzm061