A review of approaches to quality assurance of veterinary systems for health-status certification

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 129-140

  Stärk, Katharina D C ^a   Salman, Mo ^b   Tempelman, Yuval ^a   Kihm, Ulrich ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality assessment; Risk assessment; Surveillance methods; Veterinary services

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 0037132446     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(02)00156-3     Document Type: Article

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