Does specialty board certification influence clinical outcomes?

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 473-481

  Grosch, Eric N ^a  

^a United Urgent Care Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Board certification; Causal criteria; Data dredging; Outcomes; Syllogism

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDITY;

CERTIFICATION; HUMANS; MEDICINE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748907713     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00556.x     Document Type: Review

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