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Overcoming obstacles to routine outcome measurement

The nuts and bolts of implementing clinical audit∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Isaac Marks*
Affiliation:
Clinical Computing Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Bethlem Maudsley Hospital Trust, London SE5 8AF
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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