Meeting the challenges in the delivery of child and adolescent mental health services in the next millennium: The continuous quality improvement approach

Applied and Preventive Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 247-255

  Bickman, Leonard ^a   Noser, Kelly ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome measurement; Process measurement; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033415551     PISSN: 09621849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-1849(05)80039-3     Document Type: Article

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