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Hospital ethics committees: Function, structure, and legal considerations

✍ Scribed by Rader, Janice

Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 2009
Weight: 137 KB
Volume: 5
Category: Article
ISSN: 0899-1073
DOI: 10.1002/jhrm.5600050406

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