The Legal Implications of Healthcare Communications: What Every Pain Physician Needs to Know

Pain Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-96

  Shomaker, T Samuel ^a   Ashburn, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Defamation; Medical records; Medical legal communications; Privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347934785     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4637.2000.99108.x     Document Type: Article

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