Outcomes research and the quality of health care: The beacon of an ethics of evidence

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-32

  Miké, Valerie ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH;

EID: 0032971638     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01632789922034149     Document Type: Article

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