Challenges for performance assessment and improvement in primary health care: the case of the Portuguese health centres.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Health Policy

• Publication date

  2009-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

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  DOI 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.11.008PMID 19118917
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