Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 375-388 , June 2009

Criterion-based clinical audit in obstetrics: bridging the quality gap?

  • W.J. Graham, DPhil (Oxon) (Professor of Obstetric Epidemiology)

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.01.017

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 375-388 , June 2009

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