Emergency Department Escalation in Theory and Practice: A Mixed‐Methods Study Using a Model of Organizational Resilience
@article{Back2017EmergencyDE, title={Emergency Department Escalation in Theory and Practice: A Mixed‐Methods Study Using a Model of Organizational Resilience}, author={Jonathan Back and Alastair Ross and Myanna Duncan and Peter Jaye and Katherine Henderson and Janet E. Anderson}, journal={Annals of Emergency Medicine}, year={2017}, volume={70}, pages={659–671} }
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