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To supplant, supplement or support? : organisational issues for hospices. / Payne, Sheila.
In: Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 46, No. 11, 01.01.1998, p. 1495-1504.

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Payne S. To supplant, supplement or support? : organisational issues for hospices. Social Science and Medicine. 1998 Jan 1;46(11):1495-1504. doi: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00019-7

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Payne, Sheila. / To supplant, supplement or support? : organisational issues for hospices. In: Social Science and Medicine. 1998 ; Vol. 46, No. 11. pp. 1495-1504.

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