Ranking Hospitals Based on Preventable Hospital Death Rates: A Systematic Review With Implications for Both Direct Measurement and Indirect Measurement Through Standardized Mortality Rates
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عنوان ژورنال: The Milbank Quarterly
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0887-378X,1468-0009
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12375