Disclosure and Apology: Patient-Centered Approaches to the Public Health Problem of Medical Error
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0029-2559,0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.70.2.140