Locating the worths of performance indicators: Performing transparencies and accountabilities in health care

The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 224-242

  Jerak Zuiderent, Sonja ^a   Bal, Roland ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84920847320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203846612     Document Type: Chapter

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