Citation: Emanuele Amodio, Luca Cavalieri d’Oro, Elisabetta Chiarazzo, Carlo Picco, Maurizio Migliori, Isabella Trezzi, Silvano Lopez, Oliviero Rinaldi, Massimo Giupponi. Emergency department performances during overcrowding: the experience of the health protection agency of Brianza[J]. AIMS Public Health, 2018, 5(3): 217-224. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2018.3.217
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