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Variations in complication rates and opportunities for improvement in quality of care for patients having abdominal aortic surgery

✍ Scribed by Peter Pronovost; Elizabeth Garrett; Todd Dorman; Mollie Jenckes; Thomas H. Webb III; Michael Breslow; Brian Rosenfeld; Eric Bass

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 57 KB
Volume: 386
Category: Article
ISSN: 1435-2451
DOI: 10.1007/s004230100216

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