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Innovations in Human Service Technologies: Strengthening Health Care Delivery Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Susan Hoefflinger Taft  and
Pauline Seitz
Susan Hoefflinger Taft
Affiliation:
Kent State University
Pauline Seitz
Affiliation:
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Abstract

The authors report on innovative approaches to the organization of health services and the delivery of patient care in 19 U.S. hospitals and hospital networks. Strengthening patient care is the focus of this initiative. Hospital-wide interdisciplinary planning and the subsequent trial of new human service technologies are explored.

Type
Special Section: Assessing Nursing and Technology
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring 1994 , pp. 214 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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