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Promoting advance directives among elderly primary care patients

✍ Scribed by Lawrence S. Wissow; Amy Belote; Wade Kramer; Amy Compton-Phillips; Robert Kritzler; Jonathan P. Weiner

Book ID
109091563
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
135 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0884-8734

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