Leadership commitments to improve value in health care: Finding common ground: Workshop summary

Leadership Commitments to Improve Value in Health Care: Finding Common Ground: Workshop Summary

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-368

  Olsen, LeighAnne ^a   Goolsby, W Alexander ^a   McGinnis, J Michael ^a  

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