Does the ‘Chinese New Year effect’ exist? Hospital mortality in patients admitted to internal medicine departments during official consecutive holidays: a nationwide population-based cohort study
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Open
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2044-6055,2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025762