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Developing 'robust performance benchmarks' for the next Australian Health Care Agreement: the need for a new framework.

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[Efficiency versus quality in the NHS, in Portugal: methodologies for evaluation]

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Recommendations on evidence needed to support measurement equivalence between electronic and paper-based patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures: ISPOR ePRO Good Research Practices Task Force report.

Coons SJ, Gwaltney CJ, Hays RD, Lundy JJ, Sloan JA, Revicki DA, Lenderking WR, Cella D, Basch E; ISPOR ePRO Task Force.

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[Procedures and methods of benefit assessments for medicines in Germany]

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Critical pathway for the management of acute heart failure at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System: transforming performance measures into cardiac care.

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Soutter M, Alexandrescu M, Schenk C, Drobot R.

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Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice-based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.

Zwarenstein M, Goldman J, Reeves S.

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Agreement in patient-physician communication in primary care: a study from Central and Eastern Europe.

Zebiene E, Svab I, Sapoka V, Kairys J, Dotsenko M, Radić S, Miholic M.

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The role of the hospital registry in achieving outcome benchmarks in cancer care.

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A model for increasing patient safety in the intensive care unit: increasing the implementation rates of proven safety measures.

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