The Effect of Computerized Feedback Coupled with a Newsletter upon Outpatient Prescribing Charges
Medical CarePublished 1 January 1988
Charles O. Hershey, Harold I. Goldberg, David I. Cohen
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From the Division of General Internal Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital Cleveland, Ohio
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Health ProfessionsArts and HumanitiesPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
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