Canadian general surgeons' opinions about clinical practice audit

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 762-770

  Ghaderi, Iman ^a   Madani, Amin ^a   De Gara, Christopher J ^a   Schlachta, Christopher M ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SURGEON;

ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84878017300     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.11.027     Document Type: Article

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