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. 2007 Nov;62(11):1015; author reply 1015.

Mortality predictors are not triage scores

Kirsty Challen, Andrew Bentley, John Bright, Darren Walter
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Mortality predictors are not triage scores

Kirsty Challen et al. Thorax. 2007 Nov.
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