Assessing quality indicators related to mental health emergency room utilization
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Quality of mental health care indicators to improve care.
The relevance of measuring quality of mental health care is widely recognized and a number of authors have defined quality of health care by describing this concept according to a set of dimensions and using different indicators. Despite the growing interest around these issues, in mental health care there is still a lack of agreement on the dimensions and measures which should be used as indic...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Emergency Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1471-227X
DOI: 10.1186/s12873-019-0223-8