The potential impact of performance incentive programs on racial disparities in healthcare

Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America: Beyond the IOM Report

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 237-256

  Chien, Alyna T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-485-8_12     Document Type: Chapter

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