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Estimating the out-of-hospital mortality rate using patient discharge data

✍ Scribed by Mehdi Farsi; Geert Ridder

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 187 KB
Volume: 15
Category: Article
ISSN: 1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1150

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