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. 2025 Aug 1;32(4):231-232.
doi: 10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001236. Epub 2025 Apr 11.

Multitasking in emergency medicine

Christoph Dodt  1 ; in the name of the Wellbeing Working Group of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM)
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Multitasking in emergency medicine

Christoph Dodt et al. Eur J Emerg Med. .
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