QUALICOPC, a multi-country study evaluating quality, costs and equity in primary care

BMC Family Practice - Tập 12 Số 1 - 2011
Willemijn Schäfer1, W.G.W. Boerma1, Dionne Kringos1, Jan De Maeseneer2, Stefan Greß3, Stephanie Heinemann3, Danica Rotar-Pavlič4, Chiara Seghieri5, Igor Švab4, Michael J. Berg6, Milena Vainieri5, Gert P. Westert7, Sara Willems2, Peter Groenewegen8
1Nivel (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research), Utrecht, the Netherlands
2Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
3Hochschule Fulda - University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany
4ULMF- University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
5Laboratorio MeS, Istituto di Management, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
6RIVM- National Institute for Public Health and the environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
7Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
8Department of Sociology and Department of Human Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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