Use of process measures to monitor the quality of clinical practice
- 27 September 2007
- Vol. 335 (7621), 648-650
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39317.641296.ad
Abstract
Outcomes of care are a blunt instrument for judging performance and should be replaced, say Richard J Lilford, Celia A Brown, and Jon NichollKeywords
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