(P2-91) EMS Trauma Triage: Does the Red-Blue Criteria Enable Overtriage?
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عنوان ژورنال: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1049-023X,1945-1938
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x1100536x