Observation vs admission in syncope: can we predict short length of stays?

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Tập 33 - Trang 1684-1686 - 2015
Margaret Lin1, Richard E. Wolfe1, Nathan I. Shapiro1, Victor Novack2, Yotam Lior2, Shamai A. Grossman1
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

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