Reducing preventable deaths and containing costs: The expanding role of intensive care medicine

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 308-309

  Hillman, Ken M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Liverpool Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL COST; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PREVENTION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029989204     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb94199.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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