Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Preliminary Committee Observations

Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Preliminary Committee Observations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-39

  Newhouse, Joseph P ^a   Garber, Alan M ^a   Graham, Robin P ^a   McCoy, Margaret A ^a   Mancher, Michelle ^a   Kibria, Ashna ^a  

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DOI: 10.17226/18308     Document Type: Book

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