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Risk Adjustment in Rehabilitation Quality Improvement

Dan R. BerlowitzCenter for Health QualityOutcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts;Boston University Schools of Public Health and MedicineBoston, Massachusetts
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Margaret StinemanDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Center for Epidemiology and BiostatisticsUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pages 252-261 | Published online: 05 Jan 2015

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