Health outcome measures.
Over the past two decades increasing moves towards 'measuring' health outcome have influenced much of health care and indeed much of the physiotherapy profession, However, health outcome measures can have multiple purposes, are associated with evolving and sometimes confusing terminology, and may ha...
| Publicado en: | New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 17 - 25 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Physiotherapy New Zealand Inc.
Mar2006
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