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Triage: Going full circle? Hopefully

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Dilip J. DaCruz
Dilip J. DaCruz*
Affiliation:
Sheikh Rashid Hospital and Trauma Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rashid Hospital Trauma Centre, P.O. Box 75855, Dubai 2424, United Arab Emirates; missile53@yahoo.co.uk

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Type
Radical Departure • Virage radical
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 120 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2009

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