Who is the failure: the patient or the healthcare system?

Marija Jane Juraja

doi:10.1071/HI10005

RESEARCH ARTICLE

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Who is the failure: the patient or the healthcare system?

Marija Jane Juraja

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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 28 Woodville Road, Woodville South, SA 5011, Australia. Email: marija.juraja@health.sa.gov.au

Healthcare Infection 15(2) 57-58 https://doi.org/10.1071/HI10005
Published: 23 June 2010

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