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Costs, benefits and the prevention of patient deterioration

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology, and Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Craig S. Webster

  2. Adult Critical Care Research Unit, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK

    Yize I. Wan

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Webster, C.S., Wan, Y.I. Costs, benefits and the prevention of patient deterioration. J Clin Monit Comput 36, 1245–1247 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-022-00874-6

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