Benchmarking techniques to improve neonatal care: Uses and abuses

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 343-350

  Walsh, Michele C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT;

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NEONATOLOGY; NEWBORN CARE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; WELLBEING;

EID: 0038046764     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-5108(03)00016-2     Document Type: Review

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