Quality in finance of health care: The unaddressed imperative

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 134-139

  Rivers, Patrick Asubonteng ^a   Glover, Saundra H ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Efficiency; Finance; Health care; Quality; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950060482     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09526860010327100     Document Type: Article

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