Association of Physician Certification Policy and Quality of Care: Evidence of percutaneous coronary intervention certification program in Taiwan

Shu-Hui Kao, Dau-Kuan Lu, Yi-Ling Lin, Hui-Min Hsieh, Tsung-Hsien Lin and Herng-Chia Chiu

Health Policy, 2015, vol. 119, issue 8, 1031-1038

Abstract: The aim of this study was to compare procedural, short-term and two-year outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) between board-certified and non-board certified interventional cardiologists in Taiwan.

Keywords: Certification program; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Certified interventional cardiologist; Clinical outcome (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851015000895
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:119:y:2015:i:8:p:1031-1038

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.03.006

Access Statistics for this article

Health Policy is currently edited by Katrien Kesteloot, Mia Defever and Irina Cleemput

More articles in Health Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu () and ().