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Trends in hospital standardized mortality ratios for stroke in Japan between 2012 and 2016: a retrospective

Rebeka Amin1, Takefumi Kitazawa2, Yosuke Hatakeyama3

  • 1Department of Social Medicine, Toho University Graduate School of Medicine, 5-21-16, Omori-nishi, Ota-ku 143-8540 Tokyo, Japan.

International Journal for Quality in Health Care : Journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
|October 31, 2019
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Japanbenchmarkinghealth care/standardsin-hospital mortalityquality indicatorstroke

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