Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!: REFORMING HEALTH CARE FOR THE LAST YEARS OF LIFE

Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!: Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-206

  Lynn, Joanne ^a,b,c  

^a Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Americans Better Care of the Dying   (United States)

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