Quality Improvement

Designing national quality reforms a framework for action
S Leatherman
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2007, 19(6), pp334-340
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Promoting quality: the health-care organization from a management perspective
SW Glickman
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2007, 19(6), pp341-348
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Swedish Health Care Performance - Quantity versus Quality
This paper assess the efficiency of 21 Swedish county councils through two efficiency models:

1. a traditional productivity measure (activity model) in terms of the production of intermediate outputs
2. quality outputs in the form of health-related outcomes (outcome model)

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