Improving Health Care Quality. Cecilia Fernanda Martinez

This edition first published 2020

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       Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

      Names: Shifflet, Mary Ann, 1956- author. | Martinez, Cecilia, 1979- author.

      | Oppenlander, Jane, author. | Shmerling, Shirley, 1961- author.

      Title: Improving health care quality : case studies with JMP / Mary Ann

      Shifflet, Cecilia Martinez, Jane Oppenlander, Shirley Shmerling.

      Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2020] | Includes bibliographical

      references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019057873 (print) | LCCN 2019057874 (ebook) | ISBN

      9781119604617 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119604648 (adobe pdf) | ISBN

      9781119604679 (epub)

      Subjects: MESH: Quality Improvement | Quality Assurance, Health

      Care--methods | Models, Statistical | Data Analysis | Outcome and

      Process Assessment, Health Care--methods | United States | Case Reports

      Classification: LCC RA418 (print) | LCC RA418 (ebook) | NLM W 84.4 AA1 |

      DDC 362.1--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019057873

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019057874

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