Emergency Department Crowding: A call for unity;La saturación de los servicios de urgencias: Una llamada a la unidad

Emergencias

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-64

  Flores, Carlos R ^a  

^a Lawrence Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Delivery; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952924342     PISSN: 11376821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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