Identifying complications and low provider adherence to normative practices using administrative data.

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Published in Health Serv Res on October 01, 1995

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D H Kuykendall1, C M Ashton, M L Johnson, J M Geraci

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1: VAMC, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

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