Empowering health care consumers in the United States

Democratizing Health: Consumer Groups in the Policy Process

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 208-221

  Fox, Michael H ^a   Lambertson, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The Kansas Health Consumer Coalition   (United States)

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