Clinical service-line structures can better carry out the missions of traditional clinical departments

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1055-1057

  Wenzel, Richard P ^a   Kontos, Hermes A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEAMWORK;

EID: 0032722592     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199910000-00003     Document Type: Note

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