Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 369-383 , September 2007

Awareness: practice, standards, and the law

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.04.007

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 369-383 , September 2007

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