The corporate transformation of medical specialty care: The exemplary case of neonatology

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 790-802

  Kinney, Eleanor D ^a,b  

^a Department of Law ^*

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LAW; MEDICINE; NEONATOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ANTITRUST LAWS; HUMANS; NEONATOLOGY; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57349145313     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.00338.x     Document Type: Article

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