What were the lessons learned from implementing clinical audit in Latin America?

Clinical Governance

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-225

  Siddiqi, Kamran ^a,b   Newell, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical audit; Communicable diseases; South America

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549217267     PISSN: 14777274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14777270910976157     Document Type: Article

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