Surging to the right standard of care

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-198

  Koenig, Kristi L ^a   Cone, David C ^b   Burstein, Jonathan L ^c   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 31544452306     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.10.007     Document Type: Editorial

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