A new simple primary care morbidity score predicted mortality and better explains between practice variations than the Charlson index
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0895-4356
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.10.012