Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 1-21 , March 2008

Risk stratification

  • William Vernick, MD (Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care)

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  • Lee A. Fleisher, MD, FACC, FAHA (Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Professor of Medicine)

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.10.002

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