Advance Directives and Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders on General Medical Wards versus the Intensive Care Unit
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.7205/milmed.169.6.433