Copyright © 1999 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Editorial
Using administrative data to assess health care outcomes
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, U.S.A
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