Improving Chest Pain Evaluation Within a Multihospital Network by the Use of Emergency Department Observation Units
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement
- Vol. 23 (6) , 312-320
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1070-3241(16)30321-2
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