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New “Core Quality Measures”: Only a Beginning

David Nowels and Douglas B. Kamerow
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2017, 30 (1) 4-7; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.01.160215
David Nowels
From the Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC (DN, DBK); the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine (DN); and the Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington (DBK).
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Douglas B. Kamerow
From the Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC (DN, DBK); the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine (DN); and the Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington (DBK).
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