Public reports: Putting patients in the picture requires a new relationship between doctors and patients

Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: The Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 65-75

  Walton, Merrilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 73349090664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511545467.006     Document Type: Chapter

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