Emergency Department Performance Measures and Benchmarking Summit
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Emergency department performance measures and benchmarking summit.
The findings are presented of a consensus group created to address the standardization of performance measures for emergency medicine. This group, whose members have affiliations with most major organizations interested in emergency medicine performance, benchmarking and quality improvement, was tasked with standardizing definitions pertinent to emergency department performance measures, creati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.05.026