Patient complaints and malpractice risk.

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

• Publication date

  2002-06-12

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/00006254-200211000-00011PMID 12052124
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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