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. 1994 Nov 12;309(6964):1273–1277. doi: 10.1136/bmj.309.6964.1273

So stroke units save lives: where do we go from here?

M Dennis 1, P Langhorne 1
PMCID: PMC2541829  PMID: 7888851

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