The Dartmouth atlas of health care, the middle Atlantic states

The nine regional Atlases provide the data and analysis for specific hospital service areas with which these and other questions can be addressed. Strategies to address the question of the appropriate levels of supply must be developed in the absence of detailed understanding of the nature of health...

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Main Author: Wennberg, John E.
Corporate Author: Dartmouth Medical School Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
Other Authors: Cooper, Megan McAndrew (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois American Hospital Publishing, Inc. [1996], 1996
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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