Believing Is Seeing

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 511-512

  Wears, Robert L ^a   Nelson, Lewis S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACIST ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77952319969     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.018     Document Type: Editorial

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