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Data profiles: a tool for decision makers.

Abstract

Systematic, long-range planning is increasingly important to hospitals because government is scrutinizing their costs and quality ever more closely. This level of planning requires that institutional decision makers have adequate data available in usable form. A set of data profiles needed by hospitals to do this job is suggested.

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B Dinerman. 1978. Data profiles: a tool for decision makers.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/621072/

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