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Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Nov 19; doi: 10.1111/acem.14420. Epub 2021 Nov 19.

Novel referral pathway for patients with new solid tumors discharged from the emergency department: A pilot study.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Nicholas Pettit, Ahmad Al-Hader

Affiliations

  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
  2. Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

PMID: 34797610 DOI: 10.1111/acem.14420

[No abstract available.]

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