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Technical comment

Vol. 144 No. 1516 (2014)

Provision of complementary and alternative medicine in Swiss hospitals: neither increasing nor evidence-based

  • David Martin Shaw
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2014.13926
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w13926
Published
06.04.2014

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