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The disease spectrum of adult patients at a tertiary care center emergency department in Lebanon

OBJECTIVE: There is an increase in Emergency Department (ED) utilization globally. Understanding what patients present to EDs with is important for resource allocation, training and staffing purposes. There is paucity of data pertaining to ED visit presentations in Lebanon. This study aims at descri...

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Autores principales:	Hitti, Eveline, Geha, Mirabelle, Hadid, Dima, Bachir, Rana
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2019
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530848/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31116760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216740

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