Clinical governance: Complexities and promises

Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry: The Australian Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 253-278

  Iedema, Rick ^a   Braithwaite, Jeffrey ^a   Jorm, Christine ^b   Nugus, Peter ^c   Whelan, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NONE

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EID: 84994365899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230596009     Document Type: Chapter

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