Pilot Study of a Simple Mass Casualty Tracking Application (MCTA) Tested at a High-Throughput Trauma Center
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Copyright: © 2011 Hoskins JD, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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