Striving to recruit: the difficulties of conducting clinical research on elderly care home residents
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0141-0768,0141-0768
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.100.6.258