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Risk adjustment and public reporting on home health care

Christopher M Murtaugh1, Timothy Peng, Hakan Aykan

  • 1Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Center for Home Care Policy and Research, New York 10001, USA. chris.murtaugh@vnsny.org

Health Care Financing Review
|July 25, 2007
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