Emergency Physicians' Fear of Malpractice in Evaluating Patients With Possible Acute Cardiac Ischemia
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- 31 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Annals of Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 46 (6), 525-533
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.04.016
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