President's page: Guidelines: Tools for building better patient care

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 2088-2090

  Zipes, Douglas P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARDIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035195532     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01684-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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