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A guide to the acute medical unit

Derek Bell1, Hannah Skene, Mike Jones

  • 1Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London.

British Journal of Hospital Medicine (London, England : 2005)
|October 7, 2008
PubMed
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