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Acute medical admissions in our hospitals: getting it right
Author(s) -
Newnham Harvey H,
Thompson Campbell H,
Jenkins Paul F,
O’Brien Lauri T
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02665.x
Subject(s) - general hospital , university hospital , medicine , library science , family medicine , computer science
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