The cape triage score: a new triage system South Africa. Proposal from the cape triage group
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The Cape Triage Score -- a triage system for South Africa.
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.028332