Empowering the chronically ill? Patient collectives in the new Dutch health insurance system
✍ Scribed by Yvette Bartholomée; Hans Maarse
- Book ID
- 116516693
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Volume
- 84
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8510
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