A health care system in transformation: Making the case for chiropractic

Chiropractic and Manual Therapies

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brown, Richard ^a  

^a The Lansdown Clinic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chiropractic; Healthcare reform; Healthcare transformation

Indexed keywords

CHIROPRACTIC; CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; QUALITY CONTROL; TEAMWORK;

EID: 84872707648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2045709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-709X-20-37     Document Type: Note

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