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Quality Patient Care in Rheumatology a Challenge to Define, Measure

  |  Issue: July 2013  |  

Dr. Desai is associate physician in the department of medicine, divisions of rheumatology, immunology, and allergy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Coblyn is director of clinical rheumatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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