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. 2016 Jun;44(6):1234-5.
doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001749.

I Miss the Sound of Your Voice: Earlier Speech in Tracheostomy Patients

Dee W Ford  1 , Bonnie Martin-Harris
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I Miss the Sound of Your Voice: Earlier Speech in Tracheostomy Patients

Dee W Ford et al. Crit Care Med. 2016 Jun.
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