Day of the week and surgical mortality. Media wrongly jump to blame junior doctors for increased surgical mortality at weekends
Thomson, P.M.
Bmj 346: F3992
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 0959-8138 PMID: 23801687 Document Number: 668863
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