Primary care physicians’ behaviors towards risk of iatrogenesis in elderly patients
✍ Scribed by Bruno Fantino; Nicolas Voirin; Laurent Laforest; Francoise Fantino; Stephanie Chretin; Eric Van Ganse
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 298 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-6970
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