Learning from the QOF: A review of existing research

The Quality and Outcomes Framework: QOF - Transforming General Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 31-69

  Steel, Nicholas ^b   Willems, Sara ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NONE

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