Lessons from Haiti on disaster relief.
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Didier Portilla,* Rachel N. Shaffer, Mark D. Okusa, Rajnish Mehrotra, Bruce A. Molitoris, Timothy E. Bunchman, and Tod Ibrahim *Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas; American Society of Nephrology, Washington, DC; Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Department of Internal Medicine, Harbor University of California–Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California; Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana; and Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN
دوره 5 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010