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Does health services research improve health services? - “Improving Health Services: background, methods and applications” by Walter Holland, Edward Elgar 2013, 271pp., ISBN 978 1 78347 018 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2014

David J. Hunter
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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 317 - 325
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