Investigating Impacts of Telemedicine on Emergency Department Through Decreasing Non-Urgent Patients in Spain
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Access
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3019667