Heart hospitals: for better or worse.
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Performance of top-ranked heart care hospitals on evidence-based process measures.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
دوره 43 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004