Surgical quality: Review of Californian measures

British Medical Journal

Volumn 328, Issue 7432, 2004, Pages 152-153

  Broder, Michael S ^a   Simon, Lisa Payne ^c   Brook, Robert H ^b  

^a Zynx Health   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c California HealthCare Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; APPENDECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CORONARY STENT; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OPEN REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 1642504244     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.152     Document Type: Review

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