High-Performance Healthcare: Access and Quality
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High-performance healthcare: access and quality.
v olumes have been written about the importance of access to high-quality healthcare, and hundreds – perhaps thousands – of speeches have been made on the topic. Access is also one of the key drivers of health reform efforts in Canada and around the world, but the term means different things to different people. As the debates currently underway in the united states clearly show, not everyone p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Healthcare Policy | Politiques de Santé
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1715-6580
DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2009.21229