Hospital ethics committees and the future of health care decision making

Hospital Materiel Management Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 82-90

  Powell, Linda T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Ethics committee

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT CARE; POLICY;

EID: 0031870430     PISSN: 01922262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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