Ethical aspects of workplace urine screening for drug abuse

Medical Humanities

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-17

  Forrest, Alexander R W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Access to samples; Ethical obligations of medical review officers; Ownership of samples; Workplace drug screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347704376     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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