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Adverse events among medical patients after discharge from hospital

Alan J. Forster, Heather D. Clark, Alex Menard, Natalie Dupuis, Robert Chernish, Natasha Chandok, Asmat Khan and Carl van Walraven
CMAJ February 03, 2004 170 (3) 345-349;
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vol. 170 no. 3 345-349
PubMed 
14757670
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  • Published online February 2, 2004.
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  1. Alan J. Forster,
  2. Heather D. Clark,
  3. Alex Menard,
  4. Natalie Dupuis,
  5. Robert Chernish,
  6. Natasha Chandok,
  7. Asmat Khan,
  8. Carl van Walraven
  1. From the Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute (Forster, Clark, van Walraven); the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa (all authors), Ottawa, Ont.; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (van Walraven), Toronto, Ont.
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr. Alan J. Forster, Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, F654-1053 Carling Ave., Ottawa ON K1Y 4E9; fax 613 761-5351; aforsterohri.ca
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