Acute care surgery: Can New Zealand afford to wait?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1289, 2009, Pages

  Bhagvan, Savitha ^a   Civil, Ian ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ACCREDITATION; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHOLECYSTITIS; CURRICULUM; DIVERTICULITIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FRACTURE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROSURGERY; NEW ZEALAND; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONALISM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SKILL; SURGEON; THERAPY DELAY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; MANPOWER; STATISTICS; TRAUMATOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 63049096909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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