Nonphysician placement of arterial catheters.
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In the editorial by Dr. A. Jay Block,' which appeared in the November 1993 issue of Chest, the author laments the disappearance of the ward laboratory and expresses some bewilderment over why this has occurred. In the inner-city hospital facing financial cuts in which I work, the motivation for its removal may have been financial, as tests performed in a ward laboratory are unreimbursed while those performed in the central laboratory
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Chest
دوره 106 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994