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Ethical Analysis of Communicating the Risk of Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David I. Shalowitz ,
Andrew Barnosky  and
Lauren Barrett Smith
David I. Shalowitz*
Affiliation:
Bioethics Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Andrew Barnosky
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Lauren Barrett Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*
Bioethics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 8 , August 2009 , pp. 805 - 806
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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