Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
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Validation of a physiological track and trigger score to identify developing critical illness in haematology patients

,Accepted 22 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2010.03.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
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