Qualitative methods for assessing health care.
BMJ Quality & SafetyPublished 1 June 1994Open access
Ray Fitzpatrick, Mary Boulton
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The evaluation of health care and efforts to maintain and improve quality in health care have very largely drawn on quantitative methods.
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