Not everything that counts can be easily counted

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7905, 2013, Pages

  Marcus, Hani J ^a,b   Hughes Hallett, Archie ^a   Cundy, Thomas P ^a   Nandi, Dipankar ^a   Yang, Guang Zhong ^a,b   Darzi, Ara ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH;

HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84877616539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f2461     Document Type: Letter

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