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Vol. 147 No. 3738 (2017)

Models to predict readmission rates – trying to sand the wings of the boomerang

  • Thomas Münzer
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2017.14493
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2017;147:w14493
Published
12.09.2017

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