Continuing Education Meetings and Workshops: Effects on Professional Practice and Health Care Outcomes

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 685-687

  Bellolio, M Fernanda ^a   Stead, Latha G ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DATA EXTRACTION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLICATION;

EID: 64549130807     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.05.034     Document Type: Editorial

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