Assessing treatment implementation amid the slings and arrows of reality

Evaluation Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1984, Pages 187-204

  Rezmovic, Eva Lantos ^a  

^a US General Accounting Office   (United States)

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EID: 84970363788     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8400800203     Document Type: Article

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