Monitoring mortality events associated with individual physicians and practices

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9382, 2003, Pages 417-418

  Thompson, William ^a   Hutwagner, Lori ^a   Kolczak, Margarette ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MONITORING; MORTALITY; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0043238652     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14098-6     Document Type: Note

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