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7 - Informed Consent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

By
Leslie R. Vojta  and
James E. Brown
Edited by
Catherine Marco  and
Raquel Schears
Catherine Marco
Affiliation:
Wright State University, Ohio
Raquel Schears
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic Emergency Medicine, Minnesota
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Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine , pp. 102 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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