Left-right discrimination in medicine

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7684, 2008, Pages 1426-1427

  McManus, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; CONFUSION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HEMISPHERE; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS;

EID: 61449152270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a2906     Document Type: Editorial

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