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. 1993 Sep;70(3):215–217. doi: 10.1136/hrt.70.3.215

General practitioners and the treatment of myocardial infarction: the place of thrombolytic treatment.

M C Colquhoun
PMCID: PMC1025298  PMID: 8398489

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