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Rational, cost effective use of investigations. Rising workload and costs in diagnostic departments must be contained.

Sudha Bulusu.   

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Year:  2002        PMID: 12142322      PMCID: PMC1123735          DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.222/a

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  BMJ        ISSN: 0959-8138


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