Developing and testing changes in delivery of care

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 651-656

  Berwick, Donald M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b Associates in Process Improvement   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LEARNING; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032522378     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-128-8-199804150-00009     Document Type: Article

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