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White Paper on Early Critical Care Services in Low Resource Settings

Annals of Global Health
Volume 87 (2021): Issue 1
By: Lia I. Losonczy,  Alfred Papali,  Sean Kivlehan,  Emilie J. Calvello Hynes,  Georgina Calderon,  Adam Laytin,  Vanessa Moll,  Ahmed Al Hazmi,  Mohammed Alsabri,  Diptesh Aryal,  Vincent Atua,  Torben Becker,  Nicole Benzoni,  Enrico Dippenaar,  Edrist Duneant,  Biruk Girma,  Naomi George,  Preeti Gupta,  Michael Jaung,  Bonaventure Hollong,  Diulu Kabongo,  Rebecca J. Kruisselbrink,  Dennis Lee,  Augusto Maldonado,  Jesse May,  Maxwell Osei-Ampofo,  Yasein Omer Osman,  Christian Owoo,  Shada A. Rouhani,  Hendry Sawe,  Daniel Schnorr,  Gentle S. Shrestha,  Aparajita Sohoni,  Menbeu Sultan,  Andrea G. Tenner,  Hanan Yusuf,  Neill K. Adhikari,  Srinvas Murthy,  Niranjan Kissoon,  John Marshall,  Abdo Khoury,  Abdelouahab Bellou,  Lee Wallis and  Teri Reynolds  
Open Access
|Nov 2021

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