Diagnostic uncertainty and medical geography: What are we mapping?

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-300

  Yiannakoulias, Nikolaos ^a   Svenson, Lawrence W ^b   Schopflocher, Donald P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Alberta Health and Wellness   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 26844580797     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2005.00096.x     Document Type: Note

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