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Health care reform: the effect of a vertically integrated health system on emergency medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Douglas Sinclair*
Affiliation:
Director of Emergency Services, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS

Abstract

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Type
Commentary • Commentaire
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2000

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