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Critical care response teams: A step forward in patient care, or a step closer to an emergency physician manpower crisis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

James Ducharme*
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
*
VP Medical Services, c/o Med-Emerg International, 6711 Mississauga Rd., Ste. 404, Mississauga ON L5N 2W3

Abstract

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Type
Commentaries • Commentaires
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2007

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