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Clinical ethics
“Two per cent isn’t a lot, but when it comes to death it seems quite a lot anyway”: patients’ perception of risk and willingness to accept risks associated with thrombolytic drug treatment for acute stroke
- Margrete Mangset, University of Oslo, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ullevaal University Hospital, NO-0407 Oslo, Norway; margrete.mangset{at}medisin.uio.no
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“Two per cent isn’t a lot, but when it comes to death it seems quite a lot anyway”: patients’ perception of risk and willingness to accept risks associated with thrombolytic drug treatment for acute stroke
Publication history
- Received September 20, 2007
- Revised April 29, 2008
- Accepted May 9, 2008
- First published December 22, 2008.
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December 22, 2008
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