Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 4 , Pages 793-798 , October 2010

Impact of standardized trauma documentation to the hospital's bottom line

Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 10–13, 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.040

Surgery
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