Barriers to the Integration of Care in Inter-Organisational Settings: A Literature Review

Carolin Auschra

doi:10.5334/ijic.3068

Barriers to the Integration of Care in Inter-Organisational Settings: A Literature Review

International Journal of Integrated Care

Volume 18 (2018): Issue 1

By: Carolin Auschra

Open Access

|Jan 2018

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