Too many heart patients discharged without follow-up care
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Too many patients, too few cardiologists to care?
1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto; 2Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute; 3Canadian Cardiovascular Society, Ottawa, Ontario; 4Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; 5Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Correspondence: Dr H Ross, Toront...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7504.1346-a