Post-appendectomy visits to the emergency department within the global period: a target for cost containment
- 30 September 2010
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 200 (3), 357-362
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.10.010
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