Professional autonomy and pastoral power: The transformation of quality registers in Swedish health care

Public Administration

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1604-1621

  Bejerot, Eva ^a   Hasselbladh, Hans ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; HEALTH CARE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; POWER RELATIONS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84155164849     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.01945.x     Document Type: Article

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