Engineering for quality in the postanesthesia care unit: an outcomes approach.
For the past 18 months, we have been monitoring three categories of outcome indicators. This process has aided us in decreasing overall patient length of stay (LOS) and improved the quality of care we provide our PACU patients. Using a local area network (LAN) computer program, we track the followin...
| Publicado en: | Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing Vol. 11; no. 5; pp. 309 - 317 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas forms Journal Article |
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W B Saunders
1996 Oct
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