"Medical writing" and ghostwriting as ethical challenges in medical communication

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3335-3337

  Gorski, A ^a,b   Letkiewicz, S ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b KATOWICE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; WRITING;

EID: 77958572451     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.07.023     Document Type: Article

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