Deciding who to admit to a critical care unit
- 1 November 2007
- Vol. 335 (7630) , 1103-1104
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39378.654329.80
Abstract
Footnotes ARTICLE This article was published on bmj.com on 1 November 2007 Competing interests: None declared. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.Keywords
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