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Errors at the Roadside: A Critical Time to Monitor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Julian Stella
Julian Stella*
Affiliation:
Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Geelong Hospital, Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia
*
julianst@barwonhealth.org.au
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2009 , pp. 262 - 263
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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