An educational intervention to improve cost-effective care among medicine housestaff: A randomized controlled trial

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 719-728

  Sommers, Benjamin D ^a,b   Desai, Nihar ^b   Fiskio, Julie ^b   Licurse, Adam ^b   Thorndike, Mary ^b   Katz, Joel T ^b   Bates, David W ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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EID: 84861674645     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31825373b3     Document Type: Review

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