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Choice of hospital: comments on ‘global budgets and excess demand for hospital care’

✍ Scribed by N. Kalant

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
40 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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