Specialization, specialty organizations, and the quality of health care

Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care

Volumn 9780813541099, Issue , 2005, Pages 206-220

  Stevens, Rosemary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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