Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 635-638 , June 2009

Evaluation of the impact of health services research on quality of care

  • Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health, One Brigham Circle, Boston, MA 02115.

,Accepted 20 March 2009.

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PII: S0039-6060(09)00133-0

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.03.004

Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 635-638 , June 2009

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