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The Healthcare Ethics Committee in the Structural Transformation of Health Care: Administrative and Organizational Ethics in Changing Times

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  1. University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, 1200 Herman Pressler St., P.O. Box 20186, RAS E-913, Houston, TX, 77030-0186

    Elizabeth Heitman

  2. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd., Rm. 1-1012, Bethesda, MD, 21814-4799

    Ruth Ellen Bulger

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Heitman, E., Bulger, R.E. The Healthcare Ethics Committee in the Structural Transformation of Health Care: Administrative and Organizational Ethics in Changing Times. HEC Forum 10, 152–176 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008865603499

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