Quality and accountability: Children's emergency services in a managed care environment

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 753-760

  Moody Williams, J D ^a   Dawson, D ^a   Miller, D R ^a   Schafermeyer, R W ^a   Wright, J ^a   Athey, J ^a  

^a EMSC National Resource Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032703338     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(99)70102-2     Document Type: Article

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