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Special article

Vol. 150 No. 1314 (2020)

COVID-19 pandemic: triage for intensive-care treatment under resource scarcity

  • Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20229
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20229
Published
24.03.2020

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