Ethics for Laboratory Medicine.
BACKGROUND: Laboratory medicine, like other areas of medicine, is obliged to adhere to high ethical standards. There are particular ethical issues that are unique to laboratory medicine and other areas in which ethical issues uniquely impact laboratory practice. Despite this, there is variability in...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Chemistry Vol. 65; no. 12; pp. 1497 - 1508 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2019
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