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. 2019 Oct;72(5):506-507.
doi: 10.4097/kja.19085. Epub 2019 Apr 1.

American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status: how the obscurity in the system itself contributes to inaccuracies and variations in classification

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American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status: how the obscurity in the system itself contributes to inaccuracies and variations in classification

Habib Md Reazaul Karim. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2019 Oct.
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