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High early mortality rate among Nursing Home residents treated by Mobile Intensive Care Unit

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Thanks to Olivier Azema and Cedric Zannese for their help with data extraction. The authors would like to thank Ana Inés Darquier for helping us to translate this manuscript into English.

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Jaubert, E., Balen, F., Bounes, V. et al. High early mortality rate among Nursing Home residents treated by Mobile Intensive Care Unit. Intern Emerg Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-024-03614-7

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