Study: fewer heart deaths when QI efforts are made
Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement 13(2): 21-22
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 1541-1052 PMID: 16544559 Document Number: 604114
Re-hospitalization rates dropped 22% when physicians used toolkit. Participating hospitals encouraged to design the instruments themselves. With successive group meetings, hospital adoption rate of toolkit increased.
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