Legal vulnerability of assessment tools

Medical Teacher

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 312-314

  Tweed, Michael ^a,b   Miola, Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034996346     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014215901300353922     Document Type: Article

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