Quality management in heart failure;Calidad asistencial en la insuficiencia cardiaca

Anales de Medicina Interna

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 307-308

  Muino Miguez A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN;

HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SPAIN;

EID: 26844582834     PISSN: 02127199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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