Recent evidence from epidemiological studies has been used to suggest that dementia represents the extreme of a continuous distribution of normal ageing, rather than being a qualitatively distinct disease entity. In contrast, clinicians, who are asked to advise about individual cases, assign patient
Patient advocacy in newborn screening: Continuities and discontinuities
β Scribed by Diane B. Paul
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 148C
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4868
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