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Erratum to: Medical Rapid Response in Psychiatry: Reasons for Activation and Immediate Outcome
Peter Manu1,2,3, Kristy Loewenstein4,5, Yankel J Girshman4
1Patient Care Services, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore - LIJ Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY, 11004, USA. pmanu@nshs.edu.
The Psychiatric Quarterly
|June 10, 2015
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