Presumed consent: licenses and limits inferred from the case of geriatric hip fractures.

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Published in BMC Med Ethics on February 24, 2017

Authors

Joseph Bernstein1, Drake LeBrun2, Duncan MacCourt3, Jaimo Ahn2

Author Affiliations

1: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Joseph.bernstein@uphs.upenn.edu.
2: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
3: Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

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