A quality roadmap of a restructured hospital

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 15, Issue , 2000, Pages 29-41

  Chow Chua, Clare F p ^a   Goh, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hospitals; Singapore; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986131981     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900010304614     Document Type: Article

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