Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 130-139 , July 2004

The role of physician gender in the evaluation of the National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health: Test of an alternate hypothesis

  • Jillian T. Henderson, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Jillian T. Henderson, PhD, MPH, Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California, San Francisco, California 94118 USA Phone: 415-502-8544
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  • Sarah Hudson Scholle, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, DC, USA
    • ,
  • Carol S. Weisman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Roger T. Anderson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Received 9 March 2004 ,Revised 14 April 2004 ,Accepted 21 April 2004.

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PII: S1049-3867(04)00038-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.04.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 130-139 , July 2004

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