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Development of a minimization instrument for allocation of a hospital-level performance improvement intervention to reduce waiting times in Ontario emergency departments

BACKGROUND: Rigorous evaluation of an intervention requires that its allocation be unbiased with respect to confounders; this is especially difficult in complex, system-wide healthcare interventions. We developed a short survey instrument to identify factors for a minimization algorithm for the allo...

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Autores principales: Leaver, Chad Andrew, Guttmann, Astrid, Zwarenstein, Merrick, Rowe, Brian H, Anderson, Geoff, Stukel, Therese, Golden, Brian, Bell, Robert, Morra, Dante, Abrams, Howard, Schull, Michael J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-4-32