Florence Nightingale
Subtitle: measuring hospital care outcomes : excerpts from the books Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army founded chiefly on the experience of the late war, and Notes on hospitals
By: by Florence Nightingale ; with contributions by Mary O. Mundinger ... [et al.].
Contributors: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.; Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.; Mundinger, Mary O'Neil.; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Publisher: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oakbrook Terrace, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Hospital mortality $x Statistics; Hospitals $x Sanitation $z Great Britain
Other titles: Measuring hospital care outcomes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Florence Nightingale: a passionate statistician; title: An invitation from Florence Nightingale: come learn about improving health care; title: Excerpts from "Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army founded chiefly on the experience of the late war" / by Florence Nightingale; title: Excerpt from "Notes on hospitals: being two papers read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science at Liverpool, in October, 1858, with evidence given to the Royal Commissioners on the state of the Army in 1857" / by Florence Nightingale; title: Epilogue: 100 apples divided by 15 red herrings: a cautionary tale from the mid-19th century on comparing hospital mortality rates.