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Marius Moen Christiansen1,2, Ameer Jamal Iversen1,2, Annmarie Touborg Lassen1,3
1Emergency Department, Odense University Hospital.
Danish Medical Journal
|April 30, 2025
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Letter regarding "Arterial pH and short-term mortality in adult non-traumatic acute patients" Dan Med J 2025;72(1):A06240407. doi: 10.61409/A06240407.
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