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Quality Improvement Teams: Moving from the Passionate Few to the Mandated Many

Ann Lefebvre
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2020, 33 (Supplement) S42-S45; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.S1.200003
Ann Lefebvre
From the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium; Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
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