Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 344-349 , March 2010

Helping patients choose: How to improve the design of comparative scorecards of hospital quality

Received 22 May 2009 ,Revised 18 January 2010 ,Accepted 18 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.01.009

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 344-349 , March 2010