Individualized medical decision making: necessary, achievable, but not yet attainable.

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Published in Arch Intern Med on March 22, 2010

Authors

Liana Fraenkel1, Terri R Fried

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. liana.fraenkel@yale.edu

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