JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 5 , Pages 292-294 , June 2009

The Medical Director as a Member of the Hospice Team

  • Debra Parker Oliver, PhD, MSW

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Debra Parker Oliver, PhD, MSW, Curtis W. and Ann H. Long Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, 709 Clark Hall, Columbia, MO 65203.
    • ,
  • Paul Tatum, MD, CMD

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PII: S1525-8610(09)00100-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.03.006

JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 5 , Pages 292-294 , June 2009

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