Improved criteria for admission to cardiac care units.

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• Publication year

  1981

• Venue

  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

• Publication date

  1981-11-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1001/JAMA.1981.03320180029024PMID 7288989
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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