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Quality in emergency medicine: progress to date, challenges to come

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Christopher M.B. Fernandes
Christopher M.B. Fernandes*
Affiliation:
Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Western University, London, ON
*
800 Commissioners Road East, London, ON N6A 5W9; Christopher_fernandes@sympatico.ca

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Keywords

diagnostic imagingqualityutilization
Type
Editorial • Commentary
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , September 2013 , pp. 255 - 257
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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