Public health physicians who contribute to on-call communicable disease control duties: national comparative clinical audit by questionnaire survey
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Public health physicians who contribute to on-call communicable disease control duties: national comparative clinical audit by questionnaire survey.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/21.4.447