Palliative care - too complex to make it simple.

Croat Med J

Dorja Vočanec, Department of Social Medicine and Organization of Health Care, Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia,

Published: April 2024

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