Integratedethics: An innovative program to improve ethics quality in health care

Innovation Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-36

  Fox, Ellen ^a   Bottrell, Melissa M ^a   Berkowitz, Kenneth A ^a   Chanko, Barbara L ^a   Foglia, Mary Beth ^a   Pearlman, Robert A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

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