Assessing outcomes of health and medical research: Do we measure what counts or count what we can measure?

Australia and New Zealand Health Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Wells, Robert ^a   Whitworth, Judith A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; INVESTMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34547489924     PISSN: 17438462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-4-14     Document Type: Note

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