Sounds Good: the Bright Future of Clinical Alarm Management Initiatives

Overview

Journal BMJ Qual Saf

Specialty Health Services

Date 2020 Feb 23

PMID 32086299

Authors

Halley Ruppel

Christopher P Bonafide

Affiliations

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