Measuring the quality of renal care: things to keep in mind when selecting and using quality indicators.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation

• Publication date

  2014-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/ndt/gft473PMID 24286978
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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