Emergency department overcrowding and ambulance transport delays for patients with chest pain.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne

• Publication date

  2003-02-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  PMID 12566332PMCID PMC140469
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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