Emergency room surgical workload in an inner city UK teaching hospital

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Mai Phan, Tuong A ^a   Patel, Bijendra ^a,b   Walsh, Michael ^b   Abraham, Ajit T ^b   Kocher, Hemant M ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 44949145516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-3-19     Document Type: Article

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