Public reporting of the hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR): Implications for the Canadian approach to safety and quality in health care

Open Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Brien, Susan E ^a   Ghali, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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