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Enhancing Quality and Reducing Costs in a Combined Training Program: The University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Experience

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 701 W. Pratt St., Baltimore, MD, 21201

    M. Philip Luber M.D.,  Steven S. Sharfstein M.D. (President and CEO of Sheppard Pratt Health Systems in Baltimore),  Anthony Lehman M.D., M.S.P.H. &  John A. Talbott M.D.

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Luber, M.P., Sharfstein, S.S., Lehman, A. et al. Enhancing Quality and Reducing Costs in a Combined Training Program: The University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Experience. Acad Psychiatry 35, 136–138 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.35.2.136

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