Improving critical care flow: admissions, discharges, and systemic pressures

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Editorial

Jack Parry-Jones. BMJ. 2023.

. 2023 Jun 15:381:1363.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.p1363.

¹ Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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