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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
Deprivation of liberty safeguards: how prepared are we?
- Correspondence to Peter Lepping, Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board, North Wales and University of Wales Bangor, Wrexham Academic Unit, Technology Park, Croesnewydd Road, Wrexham LL11 7TY, UK; peter.lepping{at}wales.nhs.uk
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Deprivation of liberty safeguards: how prepared are we?
Publication history
- Received July 5, 2009
- Revised November 23, 2009
- Accepted November 27, 2009
- First published March 8, 2010.
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February 21, 2018
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