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Special article

Vol. 151 No. 0102 (2021)

COVID-19 pandemic: triage for intensive-care treatment under resource scarcity (revised version 3.1, 17 December 2020)

  • Swiss Medical Weekly
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2021.20458
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w20458
Published
15.01.2021

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