What happens to patients in a nursing home-based, chronic ventilator unit: A five-year retrospective review of patients and outcomes

Annals of Long-Term Care

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 309-314

  Ankrom, Michael Alan ^a   Barofsky, Ivan ^a   Georas, Steve N ^a   Zelesnick, Lorrie ^a   Greenough III, William B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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