Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care
Milbank QuarterlyPublished 9 November 2005
Avedis Donabedian
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This paper deals almost exclusively with the evaluation of the medical care process at the level of physician-patient interaction and excludes processes primarily related to the effective delivery of medical care at the community level.
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