[Finding the Right Words for Medical Decisions at Life's End]

Overview

Journal Wien Klin Wochenschr

Publisher Springer

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2009 Jan 1

PMID 19116704

Citations 2

Authors

Jurgen Wallner

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