Is there important variation among health care institutions?

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 757-758

  Ohlsson, Henrik ^a   Merlo, Juan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALIFORNIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77954890723     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181e80861     Document Type: Letter

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