Avoiding legal land mines in home health care nursing

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 8-16

  Warner, Ilene ^a   Albert, Raymond ^a  

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Author keywords

Malpractice; Negligence; Risk management; Standards of care

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249117406     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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