Quality Improvement: Science and Action

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Circulation

• Publication date

  2009-04-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.768895PMID 19364989
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