Surgical Mortality as an Indicator of Hospital Quality
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Surgical mortality as an indicator of hospital quality: the problem with small sample size.
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.7.847