Medicine, management, and modernisation: A "danse macabre"?

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7390, 2003, Pages 649-652

  Degeling, Pieter ^a   Maxwell, Sharyn ^a   Kennedy, John ^a   Coyle, Barbara ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICINE; NURSING STAFF; PERCEPTION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REVIEW;

EID: 0037460854     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7390.649     Document Type: Review

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