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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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