A critical analysis of Croatian hospital ethics committees: Opportunity or bureaucratic CUL-DE-SAC?

Drustvena Istrazivanja

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1221-1238

  Borovečki, Ana ^a   Have, Henk Ten ^b   Orešković, Stjepan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Croatia; Hospital ethics committees

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846647448     PISSN: 13300288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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