Development of the Sternal Wound Infection Prediction Scale.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Heart & lung : the journal of critical care

• Publication date

  1998-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/S0147-9563(98)90053-XPMID 9777378
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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