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Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 639-641

  Scott, Kevin R ^a   Milne, William K ^b   Arora, Sanjay ^c   Carpenter, Christopher R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED MESSAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL MEDIA; TELEHEALTH; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84929048912     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12641     Document Type: Article

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