Quality Improvement in the US Veterans Health Administration
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Informatics Resources to Support Health Care Quality Improvement in the Veterans Health Administration
j J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004;11:344–350. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M1548. Information systems are increasingly important for measuring and improving health care quality. A number of integrated health care delivery systems use advanced information systems and integrated decision support to carry out quality assurance activities, of which the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) may be the largest. The ...
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Information systems are increasingly important for measuring and improving health care quality. A number of integrated health care delivery systems use advanced information systems and integrated decision support to carry out quality assurance activities, but none as large as the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The VHA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) is a large-scale, mu...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1353-4505,1464-3677
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/9.3.183