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Urgent Care Centre’s: “Urgent Need of the Hour?”

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  1. Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Muralidharan Jayashree

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19063, USA

    Vinay Nadkarni

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Jayashree, M., Nadkarni, V. Urgent Care Centre’s: “Urgent Need of the Hour?”. Indian J Pediatr 84, 774–776 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-017-2458-2

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