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Vol. 150 No. 1718 (2020)

Pain – the fifth vital sign

  • Michael Christ
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20215
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20215
Published
24.04.2020

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