Two-Tiered Ambulance Dispatch and Redeployment considering Patient Severity Classification Errors
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Healthcare Engineering
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2040-2295,2040-2309
DOI: 10.1155/2019/6031789