Increasing consultant-level staffing as a proportion of overall physician coverage improves emergency department length of stay targets
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Emergency Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1471-227X
DOI: 10.1186/s12873-020-00399-8