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Ideas from the second UEMS conference on CME/CPD: new EU directives on a patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare and professional qualifications

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  1. Nuclear Medicine PET Centre Piedmont’s Foundation for Oncology, Scientific Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment-(IRCCS), Strada Provinciale 142 km 3,95, Candiolo, Turin, 10060, Italy

    Teresio Varetto

  2. Nuclear Medicine-Radiopharmacology, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

    Durval C. Costa

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Varetto, T., Costa, D.C. Ideas from the second UEMS conference on CME/CPD: new EU directives on a patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare and professional qualifications. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 41, 2169–2173 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-014-2855-y

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