Making peer review statistically accountable

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 441-444

  Scher, Kenneth S ^a,d   Scott Conner, Carol E H ^b,c  

^a Family Health Plan Cooperative ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d Family Health Plan Cooperative   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029926209     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(97)89629-8     Document Type: Article

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