Specialty board certification and clinical outcomes: The missing link

Academic Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 534-542

  Sharp, Lisa K ^a   Bashook, Philip G ^a   Lipsky, Martin S ^a   Horowitz, Sheldon D ^a   Miller, Stephen H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; DATA BASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCINFO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036079487     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200206000-00011     Document Type: Article

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