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Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, on Survival as a Measure of Quality and Advances in Therapy

2016 Quality Care Symposium

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Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his paper, which explores lessons learned from analyses of the National Cancer Data Base. (Abstract 173)



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