Editorial comment: Measuring performance in unselected emergency admissions
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Predicting emergency department admissions.
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عنوان ژورنال: Future Hospital Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2055-3323,2055-3331
DOI: 10.7861/futurehosp.15.013