Practice guidelines and physician scorecards: Grading the graders

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 124-128

  Vogel, Robert A ^a   Topol, Eric J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; HEART DISEASES; MARYLAND; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW YORK; OHIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030091288     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.63.2.124     Document Type: Article

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