Closure of a home hospital program: Impact on hospitalization rates
β Scribed by Jeremy M. Jacobs; Aaron Cohen; Ora Rozengarten; Ludmila Meiller; Daniel Azoulay; Robert Hammerman-Rozenberg; Jochanan Stessman
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-4943
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